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Peer reviewedMallya, Ashok; Fitz, Don – Gerontologist, 1987
Presents Project Adapt, a psychogeriatric rehabilitation service developed to integrate assessment, behavior and medication management, and outcome evaluation to meet needs of mentally ill in nursing homes. Notes that mental health staff perceived significantly more improvement among participating nursing home residents than among those not…
Descriptors: Geriatrics, Individual Needs, Institutionalized Persons, Mental Disorders
Download full textFitz, Don; Simon, Judith – 1987
Because of administrative difficulties, therapeutic services provided at a nursing home by Project Adapt, through the St. Louis (Missouri) Regional Community Placement Program, were discontinued. At 2-month intervals, from June through December, 1986, 10 residents from the home where services were discontinued were compared with 10 and 15…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Comparative Analysis, Geriatrics, Gerontology
