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The Gerontologist, Vol 32, Issue 6 849-852, Copyright © 1992 by The Gerontological Society of America


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Introducing psychiatric care into nursing homes

KM Sakauye and CJ Camp
LSU Medical Center, New Orleans.

A consultation-liaison psychiatry program in a teaching nursing home helped implement six guiding principles including: make the patient human to the staff; assume no behavior is random; look for depression of psychosis as a source of problems; reduce medications and medication doses; create a more homelike environment; and use conditions in which learning still occurs in dementia.


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