[Intervention measures in social work in institutional gerontopsychiatry].

Social-worker has to follow up important functions within the diagnosis and therapy of a gerontopsychiatric station. His employment also concerns patients with serious psychiatric syndromes as well as depression, paranoia, and dementia. Social-worker completes the function of medical doctor and nurses, has to attend to patient's interests, and gives informations and advice to persons and institutions of environment. Group-therapy belonging patients and other persons to is able to prevent the regressive tendency of psychiatric persons in older age.