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Old Age Mental Disorders in Newcastle upon Tyne

Part I: A Study of Prevalence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

D. W. K. Kay ,
P. Beamish  and
Martin Roth
D. W. K. Kay
Affiliation:
The Royal Victoria Infirmary and King's College Medical School, Newcastle upon Tyne
P. Beamish
Affiliation:
Newcastle Regional Hospital Board
Martin Roth
Affiliation:
University of Durham and King's College Medical School, Newcastle upon Tyne
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Community surveys abroad have shown that there is a high prevalence of serious mental illness in old age, much of which is not treated in hospital (Gruenberg, 1961; Nielsen, 1963). Most community surveys of the aged in this country have, however, been concerned chiefly with general medical and social problems (Sheldon, 1948; Simonds and Stewart, 1954), or have formed part of whole-population studies and recorded only the most severe kinds of mental disturbance in old age (Mayer-Gross, 1948). An exception is the study of a Scottish rural practice by Primrose (1962).

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 110 , Issue 465 , March 1964 , pp. 146 - 158
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1964 

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