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Demented and chronic depressed patients attending a day hospital: stress experienced by carers
- Authors:
- ROSENVINGE Henry, et al
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 13(1), January 1998, pp.8-11.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Reports on a study testing the hypothesis that carers of elderly patients attending a day hospital with chronic depression experience considerable stress. A subsidiary hypothesis was that this stress is equivalent to that experienced by carers of dementia patients attending the same day hospital.
Presenile dementia: sufferers, carers and services
- Authors:
- DELANY Norma, ROSENVINGE Henry
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 10(7), July 1995, pp.597-601.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
An extensive search was made for people with presenile dementia (PSD) still under 65 years living in the Southampton Health District. Twenty-seven sufferers were identified. People with PSD had a high degree of cognitive, behavioural and self-care disabilities and carers showed considerable stress. Services were received from the old age psychiatry team, and to a lesser extent from social services and the Community Rehabilitation Unit. Community psychiatric nurses were the commonest form of support. The four sufferers in receipt of no services were less impaired. Identified needs included more counselling and advice and specific provision for the more physically active sufferer.