Psychogeriatric organization in the medico-social network: Theexperience of the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland
J. Wertheimer
Bok Engelsk 1997
| Utgitt | 1997
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| Omfang | Side 143- 145
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| Opplysninger | In Switzerland (7 million inhabitants), the organization of healthcare is in the hand of the cantons and not of the Confederation. Thecanton of Vaud (600,000 inhabitants), in the south-west part of thecountry, counts 4 psychiatric sectors, each with a psychogeriatricservice. Otherwise the canton has 146 long-stay facilities with atotal of 6,000 beds, of which 600 are for psychogeriatric cases. Homecare is in charge of a network of 38 medico-social centres withmultidisciplinary teams including psychiatric nurses. Several nursinghomes, some specialized in psychogeriatrics, are equipped, besideslong-stay beds, by units for temporary care, for medico-socialemergencies and for medico-social observations. Moreover, in Lausanne(250,000 inhabitants) an 'Orientation Office of Medico-SocialEmergencies', with psychiatric nurses, assumes emergencies at homeand by-passes hospitalizations of medico-social cases in the GeneralHospital, by the resource of medico-social emergency beds in thenursing homes. The medico-social network thus designed in this way isprofoundly permeated with the reality of psychogeriatrics.
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