A Controlled Study of Factors in the Successful Adjustment of Mental Patients to Nursing Homes
BERNARD A. STOTSKY M.D., PH.D.1
1 Boston State Hospital, Boston, Mass. 02124, and the Center for Continuing Education, Northeastern University, Boston
Successful adjustment of former state hospital patients to nursing homes is determined to a greater degree by psychiatric status and initial adjustment during the period immediately following placement than by social and physical characteristics of nursing homes, staff attitudes toward the mentally ill, caseworker follow-up, the patient's social background, or clinical picture in the hospital.
