Authors evaluated the general feasibility of using a multidisciplinary psychiatric mobile team model for homebound elderly patients. Information was collected with a semistructured interview on 235 homebound elderly patient referrals over a 2.5-year period. Ninety-three subjects were accepted into the program; 12.9% of those accepted required psychiatric hospitalization during the follow-up. Maintaining individuals in the community was achieved with intense case management and significant increases in home-care hours. The multidisciplinary team approach appeared to lessen psychiatric disability in homebound mentally ill elderly patients.
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