TY - JOUR
AU - Ross, Hugo
AB - ROBERT PH.D. SOMMER, AND HUGO M.D. ROSS, The Saskatchewan Hospital, Weyburn mental from to the of hospitals change custody improving therapy question S the lot of the of arises. The elimination of the long-stay patients feeling has created a vacuum in When it became known hopelessness hospital policy. that could be where to start. done, something superintendents began wondering there were courses of action new wards, Obviously many open-building improv- old more old etc. times wards, nurses, nurses, ing obtaining retraining Many the were made without clear idea as to or changes any goals policies. This describes a of a ward several the months paper study geriatric after ward had been renovated. The walls had been in cheerful a painted colours, had been created out of a series of small rooms and spacious day-room corridors, incandescent was new chairs were a TV and installed, in, lighting brought several units were etc. visitors considered this a installed, air-conditioning Many model ward. In when the submitted its for an American fact, hospital application Association Achievement of this ward were Award, Psychiatric photographs included in the there is one salient feature in the of However, packet. pictures this ward that was not 
TI - Social Interaction On a Geriatrics Ward
JF - International Journal of Social Psychiatry
DO - 10.1177/002076405800400207
DA - 1958-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/social-interaction-on-a-geriatrics-ward-rUqqZMqnc5
SP - 128
EP - 133
VL - 4
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -