'Not of this world': The subjective experience of late-onset psychosis

Aging and Mental Health

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 779-787

  Quin, Rebecca Claire ^a   Clare, Linda ^b   Ryan, Patrick ^c   Jackson, Mike ^d  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^d North West Wales NHS Trust Bangor ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ageing; Interpretative phenomenological analysis; Late paraphrenia; Older adults; Very late onset schizophrenia like psychosis

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEMENTIA; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; IRELAND; MALE; MENTAL PATIENT; MOOD DISORDER; PATIENT INFORMATION; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PHENOMENOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAREGIVERS; EGO; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; IRELAND; LONELINESS; MALE; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

EID: 70449341523     PISSN: 13607863     EISSN: 13646915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13607860903046453     Document Type: Article

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