Psychogeriatrics in the 1990s

Qualitative research in psychogeriatrics.

Over the past twenty years, qualitative research has gained recognition as a useful approach to scientific inquiry on issues related to health and health care, including those of particular interest to psychogeriatrics. This is evidenced not only by the inclusion of health-related qualitative reports in exclusively qualitative publications but also by their acceptance in venues that have tradit...

Psychogeriatrics and the neo-epidemiologists

A generation later, this verdict is difficult to reconcile with the widespread concern aroused by the lengthening human life-span. In retrospect, it is significant that the WHO report barely mentioned the epidemiological contribution to its subject-matter. Times have changed. The epidemiological perspective has now become indispensable not only for the psychiatrist concerned with the assessment...

Psychogeriatrics and the neo-epidemiologists.

A generation later, this verdict is difficult to reconcile with the widespread concern aroused by the lengthening human life-span. In retrospect, it is significant that the WHO report barely mentioned the epidemiological contribution to its subject-matter. Times have changed. The epidemiological perspective has now become indispensable not only for the psychiatrist concerned with the assessment...

The sources of knowledge in psychogeriatrics.

Whether called psychogeriatrics, old-age psychiatry, geriatric psychiatry, geriatric psychology, or mental health of the elderly, the clinical disciplines focusing on the mental health problems of older individuals are increasingly becoming recognized as subspecialties of their parent disciplines. Although the rate at which this is occurring is variable, interest is spreading worldwide and will...

Psychogeriatrics--an interdisciplinary specialty.