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Psychosis and aging |
l'Information Psychiatrique. Volume 86, Number 1, 39-47, janvier 2010, Psychiatrie du sujet âgé : enjeux cliniques et institutionnels
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Author(s) : Georges Jovelet |
Summary : The future for aging psychotic patients, their fate is a recurrent concern of professionals, families, and government. As regards the latter, there is however a gap between declared intentions and concrete responses left to different initiatives or improvisations. The clinical positions helped by the tendency of the mentally ill towards a series of dysfunctions, the classification of “physically handicapped”, the medico-economic pressures, have all had a concrete effect on the quality of patient management as well as a lack of political involvement. The improvement in somatic care and medical prescriptions must be placed into its proper perspective with a priority in care for acute patients and a disorganization of the psychiatric sector practices as regards these patients. We conclude this article by considering the necessity of adapting management in order to preserve the dimension of patient care. |
Keywords : psychosis, aging, cognitive alterations, dementia, madness, sector, medico-social sector, Ehpad (Housing for the Aged), UNAFAM (The National Union of Friends and Families of the Mentally Ill) |
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