1997 IPA/Bayer Research Awards in Psychogeriatrics - (third place). The wish to die in very old persons near the end of life: A psychiatric problem. Results from the Berlin Aging Study

International Psychogeriatrics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 291-307

  Linden, Michael ^a   Barnow, Sven ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GERONTOPSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PHENOMENOLOGY; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHIATRIST; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE; SENESCENCE; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; SYMPTOM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; BERLIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; SUICIDE;

EID: 0031414446     PISSN: 10416102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1041610297004456     Document Type: Article

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