Late-life paranoia: Possible association with early trauma and infertility

Autor:	Errol H. Baker, Bennett S. Gurian, Debra Wexler
Rok vydání:	1992
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty Delusional disorder medicine.disease Psychiatry and Mental health Delusion Schizophrenia mental disorders medicine Etiology Dementia Geriatrics and Gerontology Age of onset Paranoia medicine.symptom Social isolation Psychiatry Psychology
Zdroj:	International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 7:277-284
ISSN:	1099-1166 0885-6230
DOI:	10.1002/gps.930070409
Popis:	We have collected data on 39 persons with late-life onset of paranoid symptoms, all but two of whom are women. We identified a subset of nine patients that met the criteria for delusional disorder. This group differed significantly from both demented and long-term schizophrenic patients on a number of variables. There was only one live birth among these nine women; more than half were refugees or holocaust survivors; there was an absence of a predicted sensory loss; and the manifestation of the paranoia was qualitatively different. Several issues are discussed: there is a late-life delusional state that is neither schizophrenia nor dementia; the paranoia in these delusionally disordered patients cannot be accounted for exclusively by the social isolation hypothesis; there is an interaction among early trauma, the absence of children, and the appearance of paranoid ideation late in life.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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