It will be remembered that the Department of Health and Social Security's Memorandum on the future of hospital services for the mentally ill specifically excluded all consideration of the problems of psychogeriatric care, and that this prompted the National Association for Mental Health to produce their ‘Mind Report’ No. 6, entitled ‘Now tell us how to solve the psychogeriatric problem of the psychiatric hospitals’. Fourteen questions were asked, covering divers areas such as the quality of information available for assessing the psychogeriatric problem, what the future admission policies were to be, what were acceptable standards of care, what practical alternatives existed to psychiatric hospital care for the elderly mentally impaired and what were the answers to the problems of provision and integration of local authority developments within the community.