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A geriatric clinic in a general hospital has developed a diagnostic and therapeutic program with rehabilitation goals for the aged. Medical, psychiatric, and psychosocial studies were integrated to determine needs and to provide broad, flexible, centrally coordinated services. Hospital resources were supplemented by other community facilities. This enabled many elderly people to live within the community and to avoid more costly, less satisfactory institutional living. Out of 100 patients re-evaluated after two years, 65 showed improvement in medical, psychiatric, and psychosocial areas, and 12 remained stabilized without further deterioration.
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