Resolving therapeutic scarcity for institutional geriatric patients with low-tech therapy.
Critical review of geriatric psychotherapy finds few existing resources and predicts steadily increasing scarcity. Without changes, resources will soon be hopelessly inadequate. One solution is to shift supportive therapy to low-tech techniques suitable for random settings and paraprofessionals, thu...
| Publicado en: | Topics in Geriatric Rehabilitation Vol. 15; no. 1; pp. 84 - 101 |
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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Sep99
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