Conclusion
The subject of geriatrics is receiving a great deal of attention from all branches of medicine. The internist and the psychiatrist have much to offer each other in this field; nowhere is the error of considering mind and body as separate entities more clearly exemplified. The psychiatrist can help the patient adjust to his remaining assets instead of bemoaning those he has lost, and the discoveries of general medicine applied to psychiatric problems are making conditions previously regarded as inevitable come into the preventable and treatable group. State hospitals have long passed the day when they had little to offer the elderly patient beyond custodial care.
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This paper was written while Dr. Osborn was on the staff of Willard State Hospital, Willard, N. Y.
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Osborn, L.A. Care of the elderly in State hospitals. Psych Quar 18 (Suppl 1), 33–42 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01561944
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