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Psychiatric Disorder in the Middle-Aged and Elderly Mentally Handicapped

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Kenneth Day
Kenneth Day*
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Northgate Hospital, Morpeth, Northumberland
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Abstract

In a study of 357 long-stay hospital residents aged 40 years and over, 30% had significant psychiatric disorder, while a retrospective survey of 215 new admissions over a seven-year period to a psychiatric unit for the mentally handicapped revealed that 20% of patients were aged 40 years and over. Both similarities and differences were found in the overall pattern of disorders between the two groups and a non-handicapped population in a comparable age-range.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 147 , Issue 6 , December 1985 , pp. 660 - 667
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Copyright © 1985 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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