Inmates in both groups favoured geriatric facilities, and voiced a desire to live there should their health continue to decline.
When queried specifically about their current health status, the geriatric facility inmates were significantly more likely to report fair to poor health status.
The bulk of institutional care is provided in subsidised residential and nursing homes (geriatric units in general and psychiatric hospitals provide the remainder).
Geriatric medicine should be promoted as the speciality for frail older people.
Loneliness may be regarded as a 'geriatric giant', leading to impaired quality of life, greater need for institutional care and increased mortality.
The remainder were joint health and social care care-management interventions, both in primary and secondary care, covering geriatric and old-age psychiatry settings.
The use of goal attainment scaling in a geriatric care setting.
Future studies would be wise to eliminate the somatic component to correct for this, or include additional measures with specific geriatric depression scales.
