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November 30th 1995 saw old age psychiatry lose the active services of four men who have played heroic roles in creating and moulding the speciality.

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  • All lost and in one day November 30th 1995 saw old age psychiatry lose the active services of four men who have played heroic roles in creating and moulding the speciality

  • They told an audience of over 100 consultants and senior registrars about their early meetings in the coffee shops of North London in the 1960s. These proved to be the beginnings of a powerful movement, strength ened by its lack of fashion, driven by a desire to understand more about mental disorder among older people and by a conviction that much, much more could and should be done for the health and welfare of older people who suffer from mental illness

  • That epidemiological work and his own analysis of neurotic disorders among older people, have remained firm foundations of further developments in the years between. He reflected that he had lost out in competition for the first ever old age psychiatry consultant post adver tised in this country to his colleague of the day

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All lost and in one day November 30th 1995 saw old age psychiatry lose the active services of four men who have played heroic roles in creating and moulding the speciality. That epidemiological work and his own analysis of neurotic disorders among older people, have remained firm foundations of further developments in the years between.

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