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A Decade of Psychiatric Consultation with Elderly Patients in a Dutch General Hospital

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2005

Ton A. H. Roulaux ,
Tjhiang T. Oei  and
Maarten M. B. B. Jansen op de Haar
Ton A. H. Roulaux
Affiliation:
Psychiatric Hospital Reinier van Arkel, 's-Hertogenbosch and Vught, The Netherlands.
Tjhiang T. Oei
Affiliation:
Psychiatric Hospital Reinier van Arkel, 's-Hertogenbosch and Vught, The Netherlands.
Maarten M. B. B. Jansen op de Haar
Affiliation:
Psychiatric Hospital Reinier van Arkel, 's-Hertogenbosch and Vught, The Netherlands.
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Abstract

A retrospective case study of ten years of psychiatric consultation with elderly in a Dutch general hospital is presented. The number of psychiatric consultations is increasing more than would be expected from admission rates or demographic changes. Of these, 24.4% were diagnosed as suffering from mood disorder and 34.1% from organic mental disorder. Somatic and psychiatric diagnoses alone seem inadequate to describe the severe problems of this specific group of patients.

Type
International Psychogeriatric Developments
Information
International Psychogeriatrics , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , March 1993 , pp. 103 - 108
Copyright
© 1993 Springer Publishing Company

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