Abstract
A worldwide demographic shift towards old age is being accompanied by a corresponding increase in the number of old people presenting with psychiatric disorders, and traditional systems are unable to cope with the problem.
Highlights
A worldwide demographic shift towards old age is being accompanied by a corresponding increase in the number of old people presenting with psychiatric disorders, and traditional systems are unable to cope with the problem
Psychiatrists who specialise in the mental dis orders of old age are responding by sharing their knowledge and experience internationally, through the established journals and conferences, and through new initiatives such as the geriatric psychiatry section of the World Psychiatric Associ ation and the new International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
Background observations and information gained from informal contacts were supplemented by 20 professional visits, ten of which were to university departments concerned with the psychiatry of old age
Summary
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