Letter to the Need for
community
Editor care
There has been a great deal of talk about the necessity for "community care" of the mentally ill, and it is unhappily true that, because of pressure of work, professional people involved in looking after the mentally ill are unable to give that personal care and friendship which is so often a patient's real need. The problem is not entirely solved by creating after-care hostels, however dedicated the staff may be, and because it is becoming more urgent to fi"d wavs of preventing breakdowns, and cutting down
the queues
trists,
Psyc?e[ii
now waiting to see I would like to suggest that ?
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workers be appointed whose task $ be to follow up in a personal enquiries made by people to organisations as your own with a vie^ maintaining direct contact. -s I understand that advice is some*' given to those writing to the and doubtless many other societies, that contact should be with the writer's own family doctor, y. ^ it true, however, that he may be wi"1'c j to one of the voluntary societies beca his own doctor seems him nni' :ms to 10 ^ v. s. y?tf sympathetic'' Keswick, Cumberland.
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community
Editor care
There has been a great deal of talk about the necessity for "community care" of the mentally ill, and it is unhappily true that, because of pressure of work, professional people involved in looking after the mentally ill are unable to give that personal care and friendship which is so often a patient's real need. The problem is not entirely solved by creating after-care hostels, however dedicated the staff may be, and because it is becoming more urgent to fi"d wavs of preventing breakdowns, and cutting down
the queues
trists,
Psyc?e[ii
now waiting to see I would like to suggest that ?
jjj
workers be appointed whose task $ be to follow up in a personal enquiries made by people to organisations as your own with a vie^ maintaining direct contact. -s I understand that advice is some*' given to those writing to the and doubtless many other societies, that contact should be with the writer's own family doctor, y. ^ it true, however, that he may be wi"1'c j to one of the voluntary societies beca his own doctor seems him nni' :ms to 10 ^ v. s. y?tf sympathetic'' Keswick, Cumberland.
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