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- Title
Effectiveness of a Nurse-Based Outreach Program for Identifying and Treating Psychiatric Illness in the Elderly .
- Authors
Rabins, Peter V.; Black, Betty S.; Roca, Robert; German, Pearl; McGuire, Marsden; Robbins, Beatrice; Rye, Rebecca; Brant, Larry
- Abstract
Presents a study to determine the effectiveness of a nurse-based outreach program for identifying and treating psychiatric illness in the elderly. How the Psychogeriatric Assessment and Treatment in City Housing (PATCH) program reduces psychiatric symptoms among elderly residents in public housing; Results of the study; Comments.
- Subjects
MENTAL illness; PSYCHIATRIC nurses; HEALTH risk assessment of older people; HEALTH of older people; CARE of people; PEOPLE with mental illness; AGE factors in disease
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2000, Vol 283, Issue 21, p2802
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1001/jama.283.21.2802