Old age psychiatry in the modern age.
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- Also identified by DOI 10.1192/bjp.bp.115.168625.
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Abstract
Old age psychiatry services globally are under threat. The discipline enjoyed its heyday in the two decades bridging the millennium. More recently there has been a move to integrate old age services with those of working age adults, to create 'ageless' services. Evidence is beginning to accumulate that this is a bad idea.
Medical subject headings
- Geriatric Psychiatry
- Psychiatry