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3. Old age psychiatry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Dawn Black ,
Elspeth Guthrie  and
David Jolley
Dawn Black
Affiliation:
Hope Hospital, Eccles New Road, Salford 6, Lancashire
Elspeth Guthrie
Affiliation:
Gaskell House, Swinton Grove, Manchester M13 0EW
David Jolley
Affiliation:
Withington Hospital, West Didsbury, Manchester M20 8LR
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The old age psychiatrist's role has been evocatively described as “physician to the soul of the elderly”. A more practical definition is psychiatrist to patients over the age of 65 with both functional and organic illnesses.

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Careers in Psychiatric Specialities
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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , January 1991 , pp. 15 - 16
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Further reading

Royal College of Psychiatrists (1987) Guidelines for regional advisers on consultant posts in the psychiatry of old age. Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, 11, 240–242.Google Scholar
Royal College of Psychiatrists (1989) Specialist services and medical training for the care of elderly people with mental illness. Psychiatric Bulletin, 13, 210–212.Google Scholar
Watson, J. P. & Jolley, D. J. (1989) A survey into the availability of higher specialist training in the psychiatry of old age in England and Wales 1983–1988 and the yield of consultant posts from the training schemes. Psychiatric Bulletin, 13, 514–516.Google Scholar
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