The world of the mentally ill is one into which few of us venture. Most people know little of psychiatry other than the well known jokes: 'A psychiatrist is a man who goes to the Folies Berg猫re and looks at the audience.' 'A neurotic is a man who builds castles in the air, ...
It also requires an understanding of some of the special problems arisi... T Howell,RJ Diamond - 《New Directions for Mental Health Services》 被引量: 0发表: 2010年 Suicide and Mental Illness in the Elderly This report deals with the relation of suicide to mental illness in the elderly. ...
1 This rise would be much greater, however, if the majority of patients were not cared for throughout the greater part of their illness by relatives, and any secular changes that diminished the domestic security of the aged would result in an insistent demand for other forms of care. This ...
Organic illness in the elderly can often present with psychiatric signs and symptoms such as anxiety, agitation, , , , , , and changes in cognitive function. The prototypes of three such diseases--deficiency, , and are discussed. Specifically addressed are the neuropsychiatric manifestations of the...
The strength–vulnerability model of mental health and illness in the elderly. Social isolation due to the global pandemic influenced not only the way how people interact, but it also brought a huge impact on the population鈥檚 mental... C Shields,LC Wynne 被引量: 0发表: 2022年 Surgery in...
The Older Patient with Psychiatric Illness Chapter © 2022 The Elderly Offender Chapter © 2020 References Ballinger, B. R., Armstrong, J., Presly, A. S., Reid, A. H.: The use of a standardised psychiatric interview in mentally handicapped patients, Brit. J. Psychiat. 127, 540–544 ...
Objectives: The aim of this study was to provide the first Irish prevalence data on mental illness in an elderly, rural, community dwelling population. Method: Subjects were identified from four general practitioners' lists. This included GMS patients, private patients and nursing home residents. Si...
T Abelin - 《Zeitschrift Für Krankenpflege Revue Suisse Des Infirmières》 被引量: 0发表: 1976年 Epidemiology of Critical Illness in the Elderly Multimorbidity is the presence of two or more chronic diseases and is common in the elderly, with a prevalence of 40 to 80 percent. It ...
function in activities of daily living, as well as stabilizing cognitiveperformance in this group, compared to controls.If frailty can be seen as a vulnerable health state consisting of accumulated def i cits(Rockwood 2004), then ameliorating these def i cits should also be considered in themanag...
2017). More importantly, the law of the jungle could lead to mental illness in older people of the Confucian context, making them face endless conflict and competition between their inner impulses to compete with others and their aging bodies that can hardly support their ambitions (Rhi 1998)....