MEDICAL DIAGNOSES IN ONE THOUSAND DOMICILED VETERANS.

Abstract

This report concerns 1,000 veterans domiciled in the Veterans Administration Facility at Biloxi, Mississippi. Domiciliary facilities provide care for veterans who are disabled and in need of attention, and represent neither a custodial “old soldiers' home” nor a hospital for acute treatment. A series of research studies by the staff of the Psychology Service (1, 2) has shown the relationships of factors like alcoholism and previous education to various aspects of this domiciliary situation. The present study attempts to correlate the medical diagnoses with the type of patients involved, and to evaluate the resulting implications.