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After the asylums: community care for people with mental illness
- Author:
- MURPHY Elaine
- Publisher:
- Faber and Faber
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 256p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Traces the history of the care of people with a mental illness, and provides a critical appraisal of the decline of the asylum and the policy of community care. Looks at the provision of a comprehensive service, and makes suggestions for turning the principles of community care into practice.
The Friern report: an experiment in resettlement
- Author:
- McLAUGHLIN Margaret
- Publisher:
- Peter Bedford Trust
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 55p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report recording the progress of a small pilot project for moving six long-stay patients from Friern Psychiatric Hospital to an inner-city community. Outlines the origins of the experiment; communication and coordination between professionals involved; the transition from hospital to the community; living in the community; and issues which arose from the project relevant to developing and improving care in the community.
Residential care as an alternative to long-stay hospital: a cost-effectiveness evaluation of two pilot projects
- Authors:
- KNAPP Martin, et al
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 9(4), 1994, pp.297-304.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Reports on research carried out in two of the 28 DHSS Care in the Community Pilot Projects in the 1980s, with specific reference to cost-effectiveness of residential care as an alternative to long-stay hospital for elderly people with mental health problems.
Suicide prevention : hazards on the fast lane to community care
- Author:
- MORGAN H.G.
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 160, February 1992, pp.149-153.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Sounds a warning note that discharge into the community of long-stay psychiatric patients could lead to an increase in the number of suicides amongst ex-patients.
The Worcester Development Project
- Authors:
- TURNER Richard, ROBERTS Glenn
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 160, January 1992, pp.103-107.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Comments on studies of the closure of two mental illness hospitals and their replacement by a community-based service.
Freedom for living
- Author:
- TOMLINSON D.
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 28.3.91, 1991, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Questions the general belief that longstay patients leaving psychiatric hospitals have different needs of mentally ill people who have been maintained in the community.
Working for a better life
- Editor:
- ADIRONDACK Sandy
- Publisher:
- Peter Bedford
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 25p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Details the work of the multifunctional Peter Bedford Agency, whose users include mentally ill and mentally handicapped people moving from long-stay hospitals to a life in the community. The agency offers rehabilitative workschemes; ordinary housing; training and support in life skills; assistance and support in moving on to activities in the wider community; and support for the development of mutual aid between participants.
What happens afterwards?
- Author:
- GOLDIE Nick
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 4.1.90, 1990, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on a survey in the contact long-stay psychiatric patients have with mental health services following their discharge from hospital.
Sheltered islanders
- Author:
- WEDDLE Ian
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 1990, pp.11-13.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
A very sheltered housing unit has opened in the Shetland Islands, enabling former long-stay psychiatric patients to move back from mainland hospitals.
Worcester Development Project : the closure and replacement of a mental hospital
- Authors:
- MILNER George, HASSALL Christine
- Journal article citation:
- Health Trends, 22(4), 1990, pp.141-145.
- Publisher:
- Office for National Statistics
Summarises and analyses a study of the closure of a hospital for mentally ill people and its replacement by general hospital psychiatric units and community care services.