Abstract
People aged over 65 years living in a mental handicap hospital on July 1st, 1989 were rated using a standardised psychiatric interview and other assessments. The results were compared with a similar survey carried out in 1976. Although the number of people had declined slightly, from 38 to 36, they constituted an increased proportion of the hospital population. Basic ability ratings were lower in 1989 than in 1976, but the difference was not statistically significant. Levels of psychiatric symptomatology were similar in both surveys. It was estimated that 58.3 per cent of the people surveyed in 1989 could be placed in non‐hospital residential care.
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