Psychiatric Services
- Volume 33
- Number 2
- February 1982
Article
Publication date: 01 February 1982
Pages101–104Elderly patients pose an enormous challenge to the mental health care delivery system because of the high prevalence of mental disturbances and suicide in that age group. But the rewards of working with the elderly make the effort worth-while, the author ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.33.2.101Publication date: 01 February 1982
Pages104–110Despite the enormous medical and psychiatric importance of mental illness among the elderly, clinicians generally are not trained in the phenomenology and presentation of the major mental disorders that occur primarily in this age group. The authors ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.33.2.104Publication date: 01 February 1982
Pages111–126Over the past few years the number of studies into the causes and cures of organic brain disorders has increased dramatically. Advances in knowledge about these disorders have been especially impressive in three areas—alcoholism, Parkinson's disease, and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.33.2.111Publication date: 01 February 1982
Pages127–133Although the elderly's need for psychiatric treatment has long been recognized, publicly funded community mental health centers generally have been unsuccessful in establishing geriatric programs. If properly used, state mental hospitals remain a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.33.2.127Publication date: 01 February 1982
Pages133–136Elderly patients pose special pharmacological problems. The combination of failing health, an aging body, and multiple drug prescriptions can alter drug effects clinicians would expect to occur in younger patients. Clinicians may also encounter problems ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.33.2.133Publication date: 01 February 1982
Pages137–141The elderly constitute a growing segment of the nation's population, but they have received a disproportionately small percentage of mental health services. To meet the mental health needs of the elderly in Milwaukee, a geropsychiatry center was opened in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.33.2.137Publication date: 01 February 1982
Pages142–147The elderly are generally acknowledged to be at high risk for developing mental illness. Yet most elderly individuals do not voluntarily ask for psychiatric services, however great their need. Moreover, they are reluctant to deal with even one member of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.33.2.142Publication date: 01 February 1982
Pages147–150A comprehensive psychiatric treatment program called Outlook was designed to treat isolated residents of inner-city housing projects for the elderly. A large proportion of the elderly referred to the program had no family members or were estranged from ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.33.2.147Past Issues
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