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THE STRICKEN: THE SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF STROKE
- Source :
- Age and Ageing. 5:188-192
- Publication Year :
- 1976
- Publisher :
- Oxford University Press (OUP), 1976.
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Abstract
- Of 76 patients admitted consecutively to a stroke rehabilitation ward at Lightburn Hospital Glasgow, 35 were discharged home, and 29 of these were followed at home for three years or until they died. Eighteen of the patients survived for three years, the survivors being mainly the younger patients. Most remained reasonably fit physically, but none returned to employment and few undertook any activities outside the house. Many became depressed and frustrated. This group received little in the way of domiciliary health and social services, rehabilitation services and financial help. There is a need to improve the services for survivors of strokes after their discharge from hospital.
- Subjects :
- Male
Aging
medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.medical_treatment
Social Welfare
Social Environment
Activities of Daily Living
medicine
Humans
Psychiatry
Stroke
Aged
Patient discharge
Rehabilitation
Social work
business.industry
Physicians, Family
General Medicine
medicine.disease
Hospitalization
Cerebrovascular Disorders
Patient room
Socioeconomic Factors
Family medicine
Social consequence
Female
Geriatrics and Gerontology
Depressed mood
business
Follow-Up Studies
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14682834 and 00020729
- Volume :
- 5
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Age and Ageing
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b035f56aebd093e3d6588d9b8b7bfaa4