| Autor: |
Greenwald BS; Hillside Hospital, Psychiatric Division of Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Glen Oaks, New York 11004., Kremen N, Aupperle P |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
The Psychiatric quarterly [Psychiatr Q] 1992 Winter; Vol. 63 (4), pp. 343-66. |
| DOI: |
10.1007/BF01066763 |
| Abstrakt: |
The United States' population is aging. Epidemiological surveys suggest significant rates of mental illness amongst the rapidly growing over-65 cohort. A burgeoning experience and data base related to the developing sub-discipline of geriatric psychiatry is now available. This article synthesizes key issues and concepts as an introduction to geropsychiatric practice-in particular, a) the interface between medical illness and psychiatric expression in the elderly, b) delirium, c) dementia, and d) depression-and considers their interactions. Finally, there is a brief overview of geriatric psychopharmacology, followed by clinically-oriented discussions of each of the major classes of psychotropics as applied to a geriatric population. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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