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A survey of all inpatients aged 70 years or more was conducted in one of London's mental hospitals in 1989. Baseline measures of cognitive and behavioural disabilities were established for each of the 130 functionally-ill long-stay patients. Three years later 71 patients were still alive, being equally distributed between hospital and community facilities. The study examines the outcomes of patients...