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Visiting in a Female Psycho-Geriatric Ward

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Peter W. Speck*
Affiliation:
Diploma in Pastoral Studies (Birmingham); Department of Theology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, 15

Extract

The value of visiting by relatives and others to the well-being of elderly in-patients is widely recognized, but there appear to have been few attempts to collect systematic information about it from visitors. A preliminary study was therefore made of visiting in a psycho-geriatric admission ward.

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Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1970 

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