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Borderline Personality Disorder in Late Life

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2005

Erlene Rosowsky  and
Bennett Gurian
Erlene Rosowsky
Affiliation:
Positive Aging Services, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Bennett Gurian
Affiliation:
Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
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Abstract

Records of eight elderly patients identified as BPD by a geriatric team were analyzed for compliance with DIB-R and DSM-III-R criteria. A nonborderline control group was randomly selected and matched for age, gender and residence. Clinicians experienced in geriatric mental health performed retrospective chart reviews and found that not one clinically diagnosed BPD patient was identified by either instrument. Although there appear to be a number of constant features of BPD throughout life, this study delineated two major areas of change in BPD in late life.

Type
Research and Reviews
Information
International Psychogeriatrics , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , March 1991 , pp. 39 - 52
Copyright
© 1991 Springer Publishing Company

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