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Dementia and depression in elderly persons: Agecat compared with dsm III and pervasive illness

✍ Scribed by Professor John R. M. Copeland; Michael E. Dewey; Hazel M. Griffiths-Jones

Book ID
102226603
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1990
Tongue
English
Weight
385 KB
Volume
5
Category
Article
ISSN
0885-6230

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✦ Synopsis

The computer diagnosis AGECAT applied to data from the Geriatric Mental State is shown to agree closely with cases of dementia and depression selected by the 'pervasive illness '(Gur1and et al., 1983) and DSM I11 methods (American Psychiatric Association, 1980). AGECAT selects more borderline cases of depression than either of the other two methods, but also designates two levels of mild or subcases for both depression and dementia.

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## Abstract Physically ill elderly patients (__N__= 236) in a geriatric and a general hospital were interviewed with the Geriatric Mental State (GMS) schedule. Psychiatric diagnoses made by the computer programme β€˜AGECAT’ were compared with those made by a psychiatrist who applied DSM‐III‐R diagnos