Corbett L, Ripeckyj A, Miller J, Dellefield K, O'Donoghue C, Borys S, Grawe G
Psychiatr Hosp. 1988 Spring;19(2):67-73.
In general hospitals, especially on acute medical-surgical, and general psychiatric units, geriatric patients are often exposed to attitudes of resentment or rejection. Individuals with treatable mental illnesses may be relatively neglected or dismissed as "senile," and their special needs not attended to. This tends to occur when the particular psychological issues of elderly patients are not shared by most of the other patients, and also when staff members are prejudiced about old people, either because of fear about their own aging or because of unresolved difficulties with parents or grandparents. The authors believe that age-specific geriatric units are the most effective treatment format for the elderly in need of psychiatric care. One example of such a unit opened in 1980, the Geriatric Psychiatry Unit currently in operation at the Johnston R. Bowman Health Center for the Elderly, a part of Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago, is described.
在综合医院，尤其是在急性内科 - 外科病房以及普通精神科病房，老年患者常常会遭遇怨恨或排斥的态度。患有可治疗精神疾病的个体可能会相对被忽视，或者被当作“老年痴呆”而不予理会，他们的特殊需求也无人关注。当老年患者的特殊心理问题不为大多数其他患者所共有，以及当工作人员因担心自身衰老，或者因与父母或祖父母之间未解决的问题而对老年人抱有偏见时，这种情况就容易发生。作者认为，针对特定年龄段的老年病房是为有精神科护理需求的老年人提供治疗的最有效模式。本文描述了这样一个病房的例子，它于1980年启用，即目前在芝加哥拉什 - 长老会 - 圣卢克医疗中心下属的约翰斯顿·R·鲍曼老年健康中心运营的老年精神科病房。
