[Recovering the capacity to live outside of hospital : results from a specialized inpatient program]
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Assessment of Dependence in Activities of Daily Living Among Older Patients in an Acute Care Unit
Published on: September 30, 2020
Pierre Lequin1, Marie-Anne Brisard1, Ifigeneia Skyllakou1
1Service de psychiatrie générale, Département de psychiatrie, CHUV, 1011 Lausanne.
Abstract:
An important number of psychiatric patients have difficulties to live outside of hospital and to stabilize their living situation. This results in long hospitalizations which are in conflict with the current strategies of brief hospital admissions for acute treatment. In order to tackle this issue, the service of general psychiatry of the Department of psychiatry of the CHUV, in Lausanne, Switzerland, has opened in June 2016 a rehabilitation inpatient unit of 18 beds focusing specifically on the development of the minimal abilities required to adapt to living in a flat or in a sheltered accommodation. This paper describes the first 12 months of activity of this unit.
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