Suggests that alternatives to the mental hospital exist and may limit the use of long stay hospital beds through comprehensive community care that also includes proper residential provisions. Alternatives may also decrease, but not impede, the tendency to chronicity in some patients, who become long term users of these community services. Italy passed a law in 1978 prohibiting admissions to mental hospitals and encouraging the development of community care. Data from the case register and intensive studies of a cohort of patients are used to show that long stay hospitalization can be discontinued while meeting the needs of the most severely handicapped patients. (French abstract) (PsycLIT Database Copyright 1993 American Psychological Assn, all rights reserved)
Comprehensive community care without long stay beds in mental hospitals: Trends from an Italian good practice area
TANSELLA, Michele
1993-01-01
Abstract
Suggests that alternatives to the mental hospital exist and may limit the use of long stay hospital beds through comprehensive community care that also includes proper residential provisions. Alternatives may also decrease, but not impede, the tendency to chronicity in some patients, who become long term users of these community services. Italy passed a law in 1978 prohibiting admissions to mental hospitals and encouraging the development of community care. Data from the case register and intensive studies of a cohort of patients are used to show that long stay hospitalization can be discontinued while meeting the needs of the most severely handicapped patients. (French abstract) (PsycLIT Database Copyright 1993 American Psychological Assn, all rights reserved)
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