Citation

Minde R, Haynes E, Rodenburg M. Can. J. Psychiatry 1990; 35(2): 133-138.

Affiliation

Geriatric Unit, Kingston Psychiatric Hospital, Ontario.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1990, Canadian Psychiatric Association, Publisher SAGE Publications)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2180552

Abstract

Research relating environment and behaviour indicates that relatively minor changes in the environment, such as restructuring a dayroom, can result in significantly improved psychosocial functioning in psychogeriatric patients. A project introducing multiple changes designed to improve the quality of life on a geriatric ward in a provincial mental hospital is described and discussed in the light of that research and suggestions are made regarding its replication under more rigorous experimental conditions.

Language: en