Surveying old people: Some practical problems

✍ Scribed by Elaine Murphy

• Book ID: 102232645
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 213 KB
• Volume: 2
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0885-6230
• DOI: 10.1002/gps.930020102

✦ Synopsis

EDITORIAL Surveying old people: some practical problems

Old people all over the world are standing up to be counted. Their psychiatric morbidity is being documented in dozens of surveys both in industrially advanced nations and now also in developing nations where the worrying implications of future demographic changes have begun to sink in. We include in this issue a study from Scotland (Bond, J. p. 39-56) and no doubt there will be