GERIATRIC PATIENTS ATTENDING A GENERAL HOSPITAL PSYCHIATRY CLINIC

238 case records of all the patients aged sixty years and above who visited psychiatry departments of two general hospitals during a three year period were retrospectively analyzed. The mean age of sample was 67 years; 43.7% of patients had functional psychosis. 55.8% of the functional cases had par...

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Autores principales: Bhogale, G.S., Sudarshan, C.Y.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1993
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2980640/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21743645
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description 238 case records of all the patients aged sixty years and above who visited psychiatry departments of two general hospitals during a three year period were retrospectively analyzed. The mean age of sample was 67 years; 43.7% of patients had functional psychosis. 55.8% of the functional cases had paranoid features. 43.28% of the sample had at least one associated physical illness, the majority of the patients had a caring spouse, were from joint or extended families and had some education and at least part time occupation.
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spelling pubmed-29806402011-07-08 GERIATRIC PATIENTS ATTENDING A GENERAL HOSPITAL PSYCHIATRY CLINIC Bhogale, G.S. Sudarshan, C.Y. Indian J Psychiatry Original Article 238 case records of all the patients aged sixty years and above who visited psychiatry departments of two general hospitals during a three year period were retrospectively analyzed. The mean age of sample was 67 years; 43.7% of patients had functional psychosis. 55.8% of the functional cases had paranoid features. 43.28% of the sample had at least one associated physical illness, the majority of the patients had a caring spouse, were from joint or extended families and had some education and at least part time occupation. Medknow Publications 1993 /pmc/articles/PMC2980640/ /pubmed/21743645 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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GERIATRIC PATIENTS ATTENDING A GENERAL HOSPITAL PSYCHIATRY CLINIC
title GERIATRIC PATIENTS ATTENDING A GENERAL HOSPITAL PSYCHIATRY CLINIC
title_full GERIATRIC PATIENTS ATTENDING A GENERAL HOSPITAL PSYCHIATRY CLINIC
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title_full_unstemmed GERIATRIC PATIENTS ATTENDING A GENERAL HOSPITAL PSYCHIATRY CLINIC
title_short GERIATRIC PATIENTS ATTENDING A GENERAL HOSPITAL PSYCHIATRY CLINIC
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2980640/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21743645
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