Psychiatrische Praxis
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Psychiatrische Praxis · Mar 1995
["Alzheimer family group": a systematic study of the needs and experiences of caregivers].
We evaluated the expectations and experience of 34 participants from a caregivers' support group. In comparison with the husbands, the wives of demented patients attended more regularly and for a longer period of time. ⋯ Wives and daughters admitted to greater emotional and physical distress. The role and efficiency of caregivers' support groups should be studied prospectively, particularly because dementia-related problems posed on individual families on one hand and on the public health sector on the other are expected to increase during the next decades.
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Contrary to the procedure followed in German-speaking countries, British national health policy since the fifties has been to promote and actively effect the closure and winding up of large psychiatric hospital centres in favour of alternative structures. The present article presents a preliminary balance sheet on 39 hospitals that have been closed since 1961 to the present day in the course of this shift-in-emphasis policy.