Geriatric Admissions to a Mental Hospital

Abstract

Recently Kay, Beamish and Roth (1964) have shown that there is only a small fraction of old people with psychiatric disorder being cared for either as hospital in-patients or as residents in Homes. Their investigation was carried out in Newcastle-on-Tyne. They pointed out that various other reports concur with the view that medical services at the present time deal only with the visible part of the “iceberg” of mental disorder and handicap.