Developing Psychogeriatric Services in England
A Turning Point in the 1960s
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12585176 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Claire Hilton (0000-0002-6697-8373, NHS Digital, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 40-72 |
| Publication date | 2015-06-15 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary British History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1361-9462 • E-ISSN: 1743-7997 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13619462.2015.1049263 |
| OpenAlex | W2276743145 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 56 |
Attitudes towards autonomy and personal freedom changed in the 1960s in England, but hardly touched the needs of dependent older people. In particular, deeply embedded public and professional attitudes and priorities linked to little change in ‘psychogeriatric’ treatment for those who were mentally unwell. Total beds in psychiatric hospitals decreased, but those remaining were increasingly and disproportionately occupied by older people receiving custodial care, often long term, despite evidence that appropriate treatment could prevent admission and facilitate discharge. Widely publicised scandals of inhumane care of older people in psychiatric hospitals prompted a more responsive government approach to improving services
Autonomy · Government (linguistics · Long-term care · Mental health · Mental illness · Mentally ill · Older people · Political science · Psychiatric hospital · Psychiatry · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · Law · Medicine · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Neurology and Historical Studies · Nursing · Psychology · Gerontology
Social insurance and allied services
The Alzheimer Conundrum
Old Age
Age-Ism
A History of Psychiatry
Sanity, Madness and the Family
Über eigenartige Krankheitsfälle des späteren Alters
Medical Knowledge and Medical Practice
Hospitals, Geriatric Medicine, and the Long-term Care of Elderly People 1946-1976
The debate on the declining birth-rate in Britain
Mental Health of Swansea's Old Folk
In the Service of Old Age
Asylums
| Highly cited | No |
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