NOUN► hospital· Surveys of long-stay hospitals exposed such anomalies in the 1960s and 1970s, creating much public concern.· An internal 1976 report on Friern by the regional health authority's own long-stay hospital monitoring team was leaked to the Telegraph.· This is particularly important in areas where the workload is even, such as many long-stay hospitals.· This suggests that those entering long-stay hospital care present different sorts of needs from those entering public/private nursing home or residential care.· Private nursing homes have higher levels of frailty than residential homes but not usually as high as long-stay hospital care.
► patient· There is a popular misconception that long-stay patients were dumped straight out of mental hospitals on the streets when they were abandoned.· Only long-stay patients will be able to light up after May 31.· De-hospitalization can be seen as a natural consequence of the decline in numbers of old long-stay patients.· This would be in addition to the plans to house the long-stay patients in new buildings on the periphery of the hospital site.· Any medication or dressings supplied to the long-stay patients would need to be logged.· Despite the increased input, remaining long-stay patients in Powick proved fairly intractable.
► population· The then current trends suggested a further 60 percent reduction in the long-stay population within ten years.· The main gap was in provision for elderly people with senile dementia and for the new long-stay population.· Physical frailty and disability varies across the different sectors, being least in public residential homes and highest in a hospital long-stay population.· This was to focus especially on the apparent difficulties of resettling the mostly elderly long-stay population of the asylums.· It was focussed on a long-stay population.
► ward· The remainder would be in psychogeriatric assessment wards and in the long-stay wards of psychiatric hospitals.· Bob recalls his first days as a charge nurse in the 1950s in a long-stay ward for elderly people.· The long-stay ward is very slowly on its way out.· Physically their new environment was a major improvement on where they had previously lived, a dormitory-style long-stay ward.