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The use of Guardianship Orders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

S. M. Benbow  and
E. Germany
S. M. Benbow
Affiliation:
York House, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9BX
E. Germany
Affiliation:
Bridgewater Hospital, Patricroft, Eccles, Manchester M30 0RL
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Guardianship Orders (GOs) are being applied more often in care of people suffering from mental illness (Hughes, 1991) and the elderly may have problems particularly suited to their use. Since many individual psychiatrists have little experience of GOs, we decided to examine our use of them. One of us had been involved in six orders over seven years working as a full-time consultant in the psychiatry of old age.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 16 , Issue 5 , May 1992 , pp. 292 - 293
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