[Are elderly psychiatric patients referred too quickly to full-board institutions? A catamnestic follow-up study (author's transl)].

Follow-up studies were conducted in 21 patients 1-2 years after their dismissal from the psychiatric hospital. All of them had been advised to give up their won residential and lodging and in-patient care. All of them had rejected this suggestion. 3 only out of the 21 patients had since entered a home, 3 retained their own flat but had meanwhile re-entered the psychiatric hospital, 3 had since died flat, 3 of them without any outside help; all others required various forms of aid and support.