Psychogeriatric day hospital reduces depression and anxiety symptoms and improves quality of life.

CONCLUSION: Attending a psychogeriatric day hospital that provides time-limited personalised care is associated with statistically significant and clinically meaningful reductions in anxious and depressive symptoms for patients, as well as increasing subjective satisfaction and quality of life. Given the projected rise in the number of older adults in coming decades, the establishment of more psychogeriatric day hospitals should be considered as an alternative to expensive and stretched inpatient services. PMID: 30116061 [PubMed - in process]
Source: New Zealand Medical Journal - Category: General Medicine Tags: N Z Med J Source Type: research