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Multiphasic Screening Programme for Somatic Diseases Among Elderly Long-Term Psychiatric Patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Knut Gjesdal  and
Johan H. Strømme
Knut Gjesdal
Affiliation:
Institute of Clinical Medicine
Johan H. Strømme
Affiliation:
Institute of Medical Biology, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway
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Older people in institutions are often disabled by physical disease (Wilson et al., 1962). Psychiatric patients, in general, have more somatic disorders than mentally healthy people (Westrin, 1961; Shepherd et al., 1964; Maguire and Granville-Grossman, 1968). In fact, most elderly long-term psychiatric patients in hospital suffer from one or more somatic disorders (Ask, 1962). Even a small improvement in the general health of these patients may be of importance for their daily life activities, and also reduce the requirements for assistance. An established regular somatic screening of these patients will help to detect disease which otherwise may be over-looked.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 124 , Issue 583 , June 1974 , pp. 564 - 572
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1974 

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