Personality disorder in older people: How common is it and what can be done?

Advances in Psychiatric Treatment

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 71-77

  Mordekar, Aparna ^a   Spence, Sean A ^b  

^a Beighton Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; NEUROTRANSMITTER; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

ABUSE; AGED; AGITATION; ALCOHOLISM; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; AVOIDANT PERSONALITY DISORDER; BORDERLINE STATE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; DEMENTIA; DEPENDENT PERSONALITY DISORDER; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DRUG SAFETY; ELDERLY CARE; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYNDROME; FAMILY THERAPY; GERIATRICS; HISTRIONIC PERSONALITY DISORDER; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LOW DRUG DOSE; MENTAL DISEASE; MOOD DISORDER; NARCISSISM; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PARANOIA; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOPATHY; PSYCHOSIS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RISK FACTOR; SCHIZOIDISM; SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; SOMATIZATION; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

EID: 58049132666     PISSN: 13555146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/apt.bp.107.003897     Document Type: Article

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