REHABILITATING CHRONIC NEUROPSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS
Abstract
The case histories of 33 patients released on trial visit after 4½ years of hospitalization were analyzed. Though the patients were 53 years old on the average and had been continuously hospitalized on the average of 12 years, follow-ups averaging 30 months from the time the patients left the hospital revealed that 24 or 72% are still out of the hospital, 19 on their own or living at home and 5 in a soldiers' home, and 12 or 37% self-supporting. No particular complications were encountered in spite of serious family opposition in half the cases, and the long period of hospitalization. The work of the social service department was of paramount importance in this program.
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