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Self-neglect in adult life

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Ajit Shah
Ajit Shah*
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Academic Unit for Psychiatry of Old Age, St Vincent's Hospital Clinical School, Mont Park Hospital Campus, Private Bag No. 1, Rosanna, Victoria 3084, Australia
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 161 , Issue 6 , December 1992 , pp. 865
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Copyright © 1992 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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