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I read Hilton’s editorial[1][1] with interest and write as a practising old age psychiatrist and clinical director for adult and older peoples’ mental health service in my trust, as well as local dementia lead and regional advisor for the Mersey region. Although a lot is being done to improve

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  • I read Hilton’s editorial[1] with interest and write as a practising old age psychiatrist and clinical director for adult and older peoples’ mental health service in my trust, as well as local dementia lead and regional advisor for the Mersey region

  • A lot is being done to improve dementia services across the Merseyside region and the country too, we are in danger of neglecting the important issue of providing functional mental health services for the elderly

  • Even though the Faculty of the Psychiatry of Old Age is to be applauded for doing a huge amount of work in raising the issue of discrimination and need for age-appropriate services, it has not clearly defined what an older person’s need is and how it varies when a patient beyond the age of 65 years newly presents with a first episode of functional mental health problems

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I read Hilton’s editorial[1] with interest and write as a practising old age psychiatrist and clinical director for adult and older peoples’ mental health service in my trust, as well as local dementia lead and regional advisor for the Mersey region. A lot is being done to improve dementia services across the Merseyside region and the country too, we are in danger of neglecting the important issue of providing functional mental health services for the elderly.

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