Letter to the Editor. Key papers in geriatric psychiatry: natural history of mental disorder in old age

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The natural history of mental disorder in old age: Alzheimer's disease and depressive illness compared

✍ John R. Robinson 📂 Article 📅 1998 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 142 KB 👁 2 views

Background. Depressive illness (DI) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) are important causes of morbidity in old age and the relationships between these two disorders are uncertain. Method. In a prospective, descriptive, comparative study of consecutive referrals aged over 65 years to one consultant, 218