Old age psychiatry in Swansea

摘要

This new specialty has many advantages. It is particularly rewarding to those interested in local history, social and industrial change, and the history of the twentieth century. Our patients are survivors, people who have had long, often interesting, and sometimes distinguished lives, people who span the whole of the social spectrum. My only contact with an air vice marshall and a Bluebell girl has been as patients. I have also met the last rat catcher who worked at the local flour mill.