The Psychiatrist and Medical Home Care: Geriatric Psychiatry in the Harlem Community
SHELDON ZIMBERG M.D.1
1 Deputy Director of the Rockland County Community Mental Health Center, Pomona, N. Y. 10970, and Associate in Psychiatry at the College of Physicians and Surgeons and the School of Public Health and Administrative Medicine, Columbia University, New York, N. Y.
The author describes his experience as a psychiatric consultant to a medical home care program dealing largely with geriatric patients. His participation in the program included psychiatric evaluations in the patients' homes, case consultations, and staff educacation. The author also points out some of the additional possibilities for the further involvement of psychiatrists in such programs.
