Treatment of homebound mentally ill elderly patients: The multidisciplinary psychiatric mobile team

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.

Publication Date: 
2002
Pages: 
469-475
Volume: 
10
Issue: 
4
Journal Name: 
American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry