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 r
Training in old age psychiatry
β Scribed by Brian Draper
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 41 KB
- Volume
- 18
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0885-6230
- DOI
- 10.1002/gps.898
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## Abstract ## Objective One of the main goals of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) section on old age psychiatry is to promote its discipline and consequently to help member societies to promote and develop locally specific medical education programmes in old age psychiatry. In order to tar
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