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Commentary for special edition on anxiety

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 June 2015

Christina Bryant
Christina Bryant*
Affiliation:
Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia and Centre for Women's Mental Health, Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia, Deputy Editor, International Psychogeriatrics Email: [email protected]
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This impressive collection of papers encompasses key themes at the heart of current research on anxiety in older adults, confirming that the study of anxiety in older adults has, indeed come of age (Beekman et al., 2015). The papers range from those providing in-depth exploration of an aspect of anxiety, such as the review by Hughes and colleagues of the concepts encompassed by the term “fear of falling” (Hughes et al., 2015), to those dealing with the assessment of anxiety, such as those by Mueller (Mueller et al., 2015) and Nitschke Massena (Nitschke Massena et al., 2015), while yet others address important issues in relation to anxiety treatment. This demonstrates the progress that has been made in recent years in our understanding and treatment of this significant group of disorders. I took a particular interest in reading these papers from the perspective of a clinician, and in this commentary will focus on themes and findings that I found to be of particular relevance to the mental health practitioner.

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International Psychogeriatrics , Volume 27 , Special Issue 7: Late Life Anxiety , July 2015 , pp. 1237 - 1239
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Copyright © International Psychogeriatric Association 2015 

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