Faculty of Medical Sciences > Geriatric Mental Health > Alumni
The department was inaugurated by Hon'ble Chief Minister of the State, Shri Mulayam Singh Yadav on August 20th, 2005. The only Geriatric Mental Health department in the whole country, it provides inpatient and outpatient services to those aged 60 years and above, as well as trains postgraduate students of psychiatry in the course of DM Geriatric Mental Health.
Like most developed countries in the world, India with a proportion of nearly 8% senior citizens in the population has fallen in the category of greying country. This proportion is expected to escalate to 11.8% by 2015 and to 18.4% by the year 2025. In view of the alarming increase in the elderly population associated with high risk and higher prevalence of neuropsychiatric problems in them, the need for the establishment of speciality services, has become in preventive. The mental health problems of elderly should no more be considered as extension of neuropsychiatric problems as amongst adults since now it is proved in several researches that they are different. Thus there is a need to develop the facilities for clinical, academic and research activities exclusively dedicated to elderlies. There are departments of Geriatric Psychiatry in almost all the premier hospitals and teaching institutions of the world. The solo concerted effort of Dr. S. C. Tiwari has made this dream come true at this premier institute of the country.
Facilities:
Psychogeriatric Community Outreach Mental Health Services:
On every Monday and Friday
Infrastructure:
Bed Strength: 30
10 Male (Dr. Venkoba Rao Ward)+10 Female (Dr. K. C. Dubey Ward) General Beds (Air-conditioned with T.V. and Music)
7 Private Wards (Ganga,Yamuna,Saraswati, Saryu, Gomti, Rapti and Ghagra)
2 Intensive Care Unit Beds
1 High Dependency Unit Bed
National Geriatric Electro Convulsive Therapy Centre (with World's best MECTA 5000Q model ECT Machine and Anesthesia Trolley with Vaporizer)
Comprehensive Psychometric Assessment Unit
Psychosocial Management Unit
Physiotherapy Unit,
Occupational Therapy Unit
Piped Gas Supply to each bed including General, Private, ICU and HDU Beds and ECT Centre
Spiritual Healing Clinic
Healthy Ageing Clinic
Well equipped Biochemical Lab for all In House Hematological and Biochemical Investigations
Well equipped State of Art Library
Patient Caregiver's Shed (to house more than 20 attendants)
A State of Art Staff Club
Two fully furnished Corporate Style Built Research Rooms
State of art "Neuropage plus" Computerized EEG machine (NP-2400P, windows based 24 channel digital EEG machine with brain mapping)