Approaches for preventive psychiatry in the geriatric population

Geriatric Psychiatry

Eating disorders in general and anorexia nervosa in particular are bewildering and frightening for families, clinicians and patients alike. They are bewildering because in contrast to any other psychiatric disorder, patients often value at least some aspects of their disorder (e.g. being able to restrict their food intake, extreme exercise) and are reluctant to change. These disorders are frigh...

Geriatric psychiatry.

Preventive psychiatry.

Preventive psychiatry.

1Research Division, Institute of Mental Health 2University of Melbourne, ORYGEN Youth Health 3University of Melbourne, ORYGEN Research Centre Address for Correspondence: A/Prof Chong Siow Ann, Institute of Mental Health, Buangkok Green Medical Park, 10 Buangkok View, Singapore 539747. Email: [email protected] Preventive Psychiatry Siow Ann Chong,1MMED (Psychiatry), MD, FAMS, Mythily Sub...

The evolution of geriatric psychiatry.

developed', and for the cryptic record that 'the hitherto separate "Entertainment Fund" Bank Account operated in the name of the Medical Superintendent is closed', an obviously retrograde step which naturally I deplore. In 1884 Dr. Rutherford began an experiment whereby chronic female patients lived in a house without attendants, requisitioning their own supplies, and doing their own cooking, c...