Intervention in Psychosocial Decompensation of the Elderly in Poor Neighbourhoods in Jerusalem

Roberto Mitelpunkt, Shlomo Baum and Haim Dasberg
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Roberto Mitelpunkt: Ezrath Nashim Mental Health Center, Community Division
Shlomo Baum: Ezrath Nashim Mental Health Center
Haim Dasberg: Hebrew University, Ezrath Nashim Mental Health Center

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 1981, vol. 27, issue 4, 271-275

Abstract: In learning to understand the particular problems of old age, in focusing our attention on losses and decompensation, we developed an approach which was concrete and situational rather than (life-long) developmental. In most cases, brief crisis-orientated interventions were sufficient to reduce symptomatology and restore the patient to a healthier level of functioning. Such interventions involved not only the psychogeriatric team but other health and social agencies as well. More so than in other fields of psychiatry, psychogeriatrics concerns itself with a wide spectrum of psychosocial factors; thus the integration of the psychogeriatric unit into the existing network of community services becomes an important concern.

Date: 1981
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DOI: 10.1177/002076408102700406

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