Mental illness, its treatment, and symptoms of mental and physical illness.Woolley, Stephen Brayton
The mean time spent in institutional care was 46.4 years for the mentally handicapped individuals. The level of self care of the mentally handicapped patients was generally better than that of the psychiatric patients. 39 % of the mentally subnormal showed psychiatric symptoms when assessed by a ...
management of frailty in dementia. Improving an individual’s general health byoptimally managing chronic diseases such as diabetes, cardiac failure, or chronicairf l ow limitation, as well as the detection and management of depressive symptoms,islikelytoimproveanindividual’sgeneralhealthstatus.Ifconcomi...
A cross-sectional population-based study was conducted in Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, in 2014 with the aim of measuring the prevalence and factors associated with depressive symptoms among the elderly. Sampling was carried out by clusters in two stages. All the elderly people (≥ 60 years) li...
. And indeed there has been a proliferation of bothpharmacologicalandpsychotherapeutictreatments. The transfer of many psychiatric patients, some still showingconspicuoussymptoms, from mental hospitals into thecommunityhas also increased the public’s awareness of the importance andprevalenceof mental illness...
Historically, the concept of mental health has been conceptualised as the absence of symptoms of mental illness or psychological distress without considering positive elements of mental health [1]. Here, mental health is assumed to operate on a unidimensional continuum, i.e., ranging from one extr...
and discuss the impact of pension modes on mental health. It is unclear to what extent the choice of pension modes will have an impact on the mental health of the elderly, and what the impact of different pension modes are on older adults. Therefore, the research on the influence of pensi...
精神疾病(上)(Mental illness (I)) Mental disease Psychiatry overview Mental disorder is the cause of multiple factors, genetic factors are important pathogenic factors, but not the only factor, as well as social psychological factors. Holistic model of Medicine: biology -- psychology -- Society -...
First, the same approach should be used for mental illness as for other illnesses. One corollary of this assumption is that there exist different psychiatric illnesses with different causes, courses and optimal treatments. Second, empiric proof is the best way to test a medical theory. In other...
Mentally-ill and insane characters have a long and storied history in anime and manga. Depending on the situation, mental illness can be used to explain th...