Old age psychiatry in the modern age.
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Old age psychiatry services globally are under threat. The discipline enjoyed its heyday in the two decades bridging the millennium. More recently there has been a move to integrate old age services with those of working age adults, to create 'ageless' services. Evidence is beginning to accumulate that this is a bad idea.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science
دوره 207 5 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015