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Psychological and Social Aspects of Psychiatric Disorders in the Aged

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Maurice Silverman
Maurice Silverman*
Affiliation:
Blackburn and Burnley General Hospitals and Whittingham Hospital, nr. Preston
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Cook, Dax and Maclay (1952), studying the population over age 65 in the public mental hospitals in England and Wales, showed that, for the ten-year period 1938 to 1948, the percentage of patients over age 65 to the total mental hospital population rose by approximately three times as much as the per cent. increase in the general population of those over age 65 to the total population. However, in addition to the magnitude of the problem of mental ill-health in the aged, its many aspects involve extensive fields where knowledge is still lacking. In consequence, it is extremely desirable to investigate more fully the psychiatric disorders occurring in old people, and the increasing importance of these maladies—especially their social significance—has prompted the present study.

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Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 99 , Issue 415 , April 1953 , pp. 257 - 264
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1953 

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