A Comparative Psychometric Assessment of Psychogeriatric and Geriatric Patients
- 1 July 1975
- journal article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 127 (1) , 33-41
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.127.1.33
Abstract
Summary: A battery of psychological tests was administered on three occasions over a three-month period to 75 patients admitted to a geriatric hospital and 75 patients admitted to psychiatric hospitals serving the same catchment area. The test results, used as an independent criterion, provided evidence that the criteria of psychiatric diagnosis were applied with constancy and accuracy in the two types of hospital, and supported the psychiatrists' findings that there were no strong grounds to believe that elderly patients were being ‘misplaced’ in one or other type of hospital facility.Keywords
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