1. KEY PAPERS IN GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRY SERIES EDITOR: ALISTAIR BURNS.
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Burns, Alistair
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GERIATRIC psychiatry , *MENTAL health , *GENERAL practitioners , *DISEASES in older people , *PEOPLE with mental illness , *MENTAL health services , *MEDICAL care - Abstract
This article presents information on research work related to geriatric psychiatry. The depressed subjects for this study were drawn from two groups. The first consisted of 100 elderly patients referred to the psychogeriatric service at Goodmayes and the London Hospital, all of whom had experienced onset of depression in the year prior to interview. To this group was added 19 who were found in the general population sample, drawn from local General Practitioners' lists, with a similar psychiatric history. The comparison group (controls) consisted of elderly subjects on this list who were free of psychiatric disorder. In view of the well identified influence on depression of age and sex, the groups were matched on those variables.
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- 1996
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