Psychiatric Disorder in the Middle-Aged and Elderly Mentally Handicapped
- 1 December 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 147 (6), 660-667
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.147.6.660
Abstract
In a study of 357 long-stay hospital residents aged 40 years and over, 30% had significant psychiatric disorder, while a retrospective survey of 215 new admissions over a seven-year period to a psychiatric unit for the mentally handicapped revealed that 20% of patients were aged 40 years and over. Both similarities and differences were found in the overall pattern of disorders between the two groups and a non-handicapped population in a comparable age-range.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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