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The History of Psychogeriatrics in the United States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2005

Peter V. Rabins
Peter V. Rabins
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
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During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, elderly individuals with severe mental illness living in the United States were cared for in state-run facilities that went by various names (asylums, psychopathic hospitals, state hospitals, state mental hospitals, and medical centers). Since the beginning of the 20th century, approximately 20% of patients in state hospital facilities had brain diseases such as dementia, usually complicated by behavioral disorder.

Type
Reflections on Geriatric Psychiatry Around the Millennium
Information
International Psychogeriatrics , Volume 11 , Issue 4 , December 1999 , pp. 371 - 373
Copyright
© 1999 International Psychogeriatric Association

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