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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
8
pubmed:dateCreated
1995-1-3
pubmed:abstractText
Wilhelm Griesinger, a 19th-century German physician, can be considered one of the founders of the concept of community-based care for mentally ill patients. In an era when such patients typically spent most of their lives in asylums in remote rural areas, be recommended their integration into society and proposed that short-term treatment of acutely ill patients could be carried out in asylums that were located in cities and linked to general hospitals. He believed that short-term hospitalization could be effective only if professional and natural support systems cooperated closely. Although he did not assume that all mental illnesses could be cured, he thought that most patients should be discharged from long-term treatment in remote asylums. For those unable to live without support in the community, be suggested setting up sheltered living conditions. Although his ideas about community-based care were rejected by his contemporaries in favor of a system of rural asylums, many of Dr. Griesinger's suggestions are now being put into practice.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
0022-1597
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
45
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
818-22
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-11
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1994
pubmed:articleTitle
Wilhelm Griesinger and the concept of community care in 19th-century Germany.
pubmed:affiliation
Mental Health Services Research Unit, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Biography, Historical Article