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Psychosis Occurring in the Senium a Review of an Industrial Population

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

A. C. Gibson
A. C. Gibson*
Affiliation:
West Cumberland Group of Hospitals Church Hill, Hensingham, Whitehaven, Cumberland
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Roth and his associates (1952, 1955, 1956) making observations on the classification and prognosis of psychotic illness occurring in elderly people found that the majority of patients fell into five main diagnostic categories; about half were cases of affective psychosis, most of which responded to E.C.T., and the rest suffered from arteriosclerotic and senile psychosis, paraphrenia and delirium. All the groups, with the exception of the senile psychotics, showed a considerable proportion of physical illness, particularly the cases of affective psychosis whose first attacks occurred after the age of sixty years. Most of the cases of delirium were physically ill and of the paraphrenics 30 per cent. were either blind or deaf.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 107 , Issue 450 , September 1961 , pp. 921 - 925
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1961 

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