Skill-based objectives for specialist training in old age psychiatry
✍ Scribed by Lars Gustafson; Alistair Burns; Cornelius Katona; José Manoel Bertolote; Vincent Camus; J. R. M. Copeland; Anne-Françoise Dufey; Nori Graham; Ralf Ihl; Siegfried Kanowski; Nicolas Kühne; Carlos Augusto de Mendonça Lima; Raimundo Mateos Alvarez; Wolfgang Rutz; Nicoleta Lucia Tataru; Catalina Tudose
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 63 KB
- Volume
- 18
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0885-6230
- DOI
- 10.1002/gps.899
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✦ Synopsis
The general background of this Lausanne meeting was the four previous Technical Consensus Statements on Psychiatry of the Elderly produced at meetings organized by WHO and WPA since 1996. The aims of these documents were to describe and delineate the speciality of psychiatry of the elderly and its responsibilities, the organization of services in the speciality, principles for training and education and finally strategies to reduce stigma and discrimination against older people with mental disorders. These