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The TAPS project. 21: functional and organic comorbidity and the effect of cognitive and behavioural disability on the placement of elderly psychiatric inpatients - a whole hospital survey
- Authors:
- ANDERSON Jeremy, TRIEMAN Noam
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 10(11), November 1995, pp.959-966.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Reports a survey by the Team for the Assessment of Psychiatric Services (TAPS) of all inpatients aged 70 years or more resident in Clayburn Hospital, London, for more than 12 months. Of 189 inpatients who completed the assessments, 142 (75%) showed unequivocal, severe cognitive disability. After controlling for age, sex and total length of inpatient stay, patients with a severe degree of reported behavioural problems were almost 23 times more likely to receive specialized psychogeriatric care than other patients. Issues related to measurement of cognitive disability across the disparate diagnosis groups are discussed.