The elderly with intellectual disability and mental disorder: A challenge for old age psychiatry

Current Opinion in Psychiatry

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 383-386

  Torr, Jennifer ^a   Chiu, Edmond ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; COMORBIDITY; DEMENTIA; DOWN SYNDROME; DYSPRAXIA; EXPERIENCE; GERONTOPSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MENTAL DISEASE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0036304222     PISSN: 09517367     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001504-200207000-00007     Document Type: Review

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