Late-life Schizophrenia: Editor's Introduction
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Late-life schizophrenia: editor's introduction.
Until recently, most of the research on schizophrenia has focused on young adults. With increasing longevity, the number of older schizophrenia patients in the population is expected to grow. Late-life schizophrenia patients fall into two groups: those who developed schizophrenia for the first time in later adulthood (late-onset schizophrenia) and those who developed the illness earlier in life...
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عنوان ژورنال: Schizophrenia Bulletin
سال: 1993
ISSN: 0586-7614,1745-1701
DOI: 10.1093/schbul/19.4.687