VPRS 18918 Broadmeadows Psychogeriatric Nursing Home, Minutes and Papers

This series comprises minutes and papers of the Broadmeadows Pyschogeriatric Nursing Home, also known as McLellan House. This facility was associated with the Mount Royal Hospital (VA 1280) and later the Melbourne Extended Care and Rehabilitation Service (VA 5265), which was formed as the result of the amalgamation of Mount Royal and the Greenvale Centre (VA 5267). McLellan House Psychogeriatric Nursing Home is located in Robinson Street, Jacana, formerly within the City of Broadmeadows. For this reason, during its establishment and early years of operation it was alternatively called the Broadmeadows Psychogeriatric Nursing Home. It functions as a Psychogeriatric Nursing Home for elderly patients with conditions that require specialist psychiatric management not usually available at aged care facilities. The aim of the home is to provide a domestic setting for elderly ambulant people requiring 24-hour nursing care who do not require specialised psychiatric treatment, but whose behaviour makes them unsuitable for accommodation in a general purpose nursing home, special accommodation house or hostel.

本数据集涵盖布罗德梅多斯老年精神科护理院（Broadmeadows Psychogeriatric Nursing Home，又名麦克莱伦之家（McLellan House））的会议纪要与档案文件。该机构曾隶属于皇家山医院（Mount Royal Hospital，编号VA 1280），后续归属墨尔本延伸护理与康复服务中心（Melbourne Extended Care and Rehabilitation Service，编号VA 5265）；该服务中心由皇家山医院与格林韦尔中心（Greenvale Centre，编号VA 5267）合并组建而成。麦克莱伦之家老年精神科护理院坐落于贾卡纳（Jacana）罗宾逊街（Robinson Street），原属布罗德梅多斯市辖区。正因如此，在其筹建与运营初期，该机构也曾被称为布罗德梅多斯老年精神科护理院。该机构作为老年精神科护理院，服务于需要专业精神科诊疗的老年患者——此类诊疗服务通常无法在普通养老机构中获取。该护理院的服务目标为：为需要24小时护理、但无需专业精神科诊疗的老年可自理患者提供家庭式居住环境；这类患者因行为问题，无法适配普通护理院、特殊住宿公寓或招待所的居住要求。