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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.
When the walls came down
- Author:
- GITTINS Diana
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 21.5.98, 1998, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Hears the views of former patients at Severalls Hospital, a long stay psychiatric institution in Essex.
The cost of living
- Author:
- LELLIOTT Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 1.2.96, 1996, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Looks at a study of mental health residential facilities in eight areas of England and Wales. The article discusses the range of residential care available to mentally ill people in each area, the characteristics of their residents, the costs of providing the facilities and of services used by residents.
Facing the realities of life in a psychiatric hospital
- Author:
- BRANDON D.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 15.12.86, 1986, pp.10-11.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Analysis key elements in improving community care.
Long-term psychiatric patients in the community
- Authors:
- JONES K., ROBINSON M., GOLIGHTLEY M.
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 149, November 1986, pp.537-540.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Reports on a follow-up study of patients discharged from three mental illness hospitals.
Long stay patients discharged from psychiatric hospitals: social and clinical outcomes after five years in the community; the TAPS Project 46
- Authors:
- LEFF Julian, TRIEMAN Noam
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 176, March 2000, pp.217-223.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
There have been no large-scale prospective studies evaluating the transfer of care from psychiatric hospitals to district-based services. The researchers aimed to compare the quality of life of patients in two north London hospitals scheduled for closure with that in the community homes to which they were discharged. Findings suggest that community care has enhanced the quality of life of this group of patients, involved in a well-planned and adequately resourced reprovision.
Community care for long-stay psychiatric patients: need- or policy-driven
- Authors:
- GARROD Neil, VICK Sandra
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 7(6), December 1999, pp.502-507.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Describes an economic analysis undertaken as part of an evaluation of mental health services in Clwyd. Cost data were collected in both the hospital setting and subsequent community care settings. Results found little significant difference in care effectiveness, but cost estimates showed that old long-stay patients cost more to care for in the community than the new long-stay patients, whilst in hospital they had cost less. Concludes that the cost of care is substantially affected by non-needs-driven policy decisions as well as by direct patient needs.
Effects of hospital closure on mortality rates of over-65 long-stay psychiatric population
- Authors:
- JACKSON Graham Alan, WHYTE Jennifer
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 13(12), December 1998, pp.836-839.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The closure of a 100-year-old hospital has allowed the authors to look at the effects on mortality of moving the whole over-65 long-stay population to other settings. The results confirm that there is a slight excess of deaths during and immediately after these moves, but that there is no long-term effect on morality rates.
The TAPS Project 41: home for life? residential stability five years after hospital discharge
- Author:
- TRIEMAN Noam
- Journal article citation:
- Community Mental Health Journal, 34(4), August 1998, pp.407-417.
- Publisher:
- Springer
Describes pathways followed by 567 long-stay patients who were resettled into the community, as part of a programme to close two psychiatric hospitals in London and replace them with community-based services. Sixty-one percent of the former patients remained in the original placement - mostly group homes - over the five-year follow-up. Ten patients could not be traced and have possibly become homeless. Only three patients were in prison during the five-year follow-up. More than a third of the sample were readmitted at least once during that period. Concludes that community residencies established under the resettlement programme served as relatively stable homes for the majority of patients.
Ward atmosphere on a medium secure long-stay ward
- Author:
- KIRBY Stephen
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Forensic Psychiatry, 8(2), September 1997, pp.336-347.
- Publisher:
- Routledge
Focuses on the patients and staff within a newly developed long-stay/rehabilitation ward of a medium secure unit (MSU) for mentally disordered offenders. The aims were: to gain the opinions of both groups with regard to their ward environment, to test for differences between the groups and to determine the degree of perceived therapeutic care. The ward was compared with a pre-discharge ward. Data were obtained through self-report using a sample of 13 patients and 16 staff. Limited differences were recorded on both wards and on global comparisons. No patient characteristics were found to be significant when they were compared with the ward atmosphere results.