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A survey of voting in elderly psychiatric and medical in-patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Andrew Stanners ,
Suzanne Kite ,
David Hargreaves  and
Wendy Burn
Andrew Stanners
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Seacroft Hospital, Leeds LS14 6UH
Suzanne Kite
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine for the Elderly, St James University Hospital, Leeds LS9 7TF
David Hargreaves
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry of Old Age, St James University Hospital, Leeds LS9 7TF
Wendy Burn
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry of Old Age, St James University Hospital, Leeds LS9 7TF
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The UK has recently held a general election in which the future of the National Health Service has been a major issue. The elderly constitute a growing proportion of the electorate and are frequent users of the Health Service, yet some may have been unable to vote because they are in-patients. Elderly in-patients can vote by post or proxy or by being taken to their polling station by relatives or party representatives, but for many these arrangements may be inadequate.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , January 1993 , pp. 19 - 20
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This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists 1993

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