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An Attempted Correlation Between Clinical and Psychometric Findings in Senile-Arteriosclerotic Dementia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Philip Pinkerton  and
Joseph Kelly
Philip Pinkerton
Affiliation:
From the Departments of Clinical and Psychological Research, Crichton Royal, Dumfries
Joseph Kelly
Affiliation:
From the Departments of Clinical and Psychological Research, Crichton Royal, Dumfries
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Recent research from psychological, psychiatric and social viewpoints has emphasized the importance to the whole community of the aged population, and has stressed in particular that the changing proportion of aged to working populations is bringing with it problems of great urgency.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 98 , Issue 411 , April 1952 , pp. 244 - 255
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1952 

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