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Physical illness associated with depression in the elderly in community based and hospital patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Stephen Dover  and
Christopher McWilliam
Stephen Dover
Affiliation:
Bradwell Hospital, Chesteron, Staffs ST5 7NJ
Christopher McWilliam
Affiliation:
University of Keele
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The co-existence of physical and psychiatric illness in so much of the elderly population poses diagnostic and therapeutic problems for psychiatrists, geriatricians and general practitioners alike, with the presence of physical illness strongly influencing and sometimes limiting the options for treatment of the psychiatric illness. Recognition of this has resulted in the Section of Old Age Psychiatry of the Royal College of Psychiatrists recommending that senior registrar training in old age psychiatry should include a one month attachment to an approved geriatric medicine unit.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 16 , Issue 10 , October 1992 , pp. 612 - 613
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