Improving Psychiatric Care for Older People: Barbara Robb's Campaign 1965-1975

• প্রধান লেখক: Claire Hilton (auth)
• বিন্যাস: বৈদ্যুতিক গ্রন্থের অধ্যায়
• ভাষা: ইংরেজি
• প্রকাশিত: Palgrave Macmillan 2017
• মালা: Mental Health in Historical Perspective
• বিষয়গুলি: Biography & True Stories; social welfare; elderly; NHS; public services; older people; history; psychiatry
• অনলাইন ব্যবহার করুন: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This book tells the story of Barbara Robb and her pressure group, Aid for the Elderly in Government Institutions (AEGIS). In 1965, Barbara visited 73-year-old Amy Gibbs in a dilapidated and overcrowded National Health Service psychiatric hospital back-ward. She was so appalled by the low standards t...