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'Senile Dementia’: a Changing Perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

D. A. Alexander*
Affiliation:
Department of Mental Health, University of Aberdeen, University Medical Buildings, Foresterhill, Aberdeen

Extract

Until relatively recently, senile dementia has been a much ignored problem in psychiatry, but largely due to considerable social, medical and demographic influences much needed interest and energy have been injected into geriatric psychiatry. Although the historical development of this diagnostic concept has been shrouded by the use of ambiguous and often emotive language, certain major threads in its history can be teased out.

Type
Research Article
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1972 

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