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The measurement of psychological problems in the elderly in general practice

✍ Scribed by Norman J. Vetter; Dee A. Jones; Christina R. Victor; Alistair E. Philip

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1986
Tongue: English
Weight: 553 KB
Volume: 1
Category: Article
ISSN: 0885-6230
DOI: 10.1002/gps.930010208

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✦ Synopsis

Interviews were performed on 1288 people aged 70 and over in an urban and a rural general practice. Information was obtained on standardized measures of anxiety, depression and memory loss. The people in the urban practice had higher (i.e. suggesting abnormal) scores for both anxiety and depression. Memory scores were higher in the rural area. These differences were basically constant for age, sex and social class groups. The urban environment appears to be associated with the excess of neurosis in the elderly at home, but not to the organic changes associated with memory loss. There was a close association between physical disability and high scores on the psychological indices. Special attention must be paid to the elderly with physical disabilities for coexisting psychological problems.

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