Admissions of elderly patients from English-speaking and non-English-speaking backgrounds to an inpatient psychogeriatric unit

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 576-582

  Hassett, Anne ^a   George, Kuruvilla ^a   Harrigan, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dementia; Depression; Elderly; Non English speaking background

Indexed keywords

AFFECTIVE NEUROSIS; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GERONTOPSYCHIATRY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INVOLUNTARY COMMITMENT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY ILL; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; VICTORIA;

EID: 0032800879     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1614.1999.00537.x     Document Type: Article

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