Liaison services for older adults
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Towards living long and being healthy--the challenge for liaison psychiatric services for older adults.
The ultimate goal of our generation is to live long and be healthy. Despite prolonged life expectancy (the second half of the last century added 20 years to the average life span, and this will increase by another 10 years by 2050) [1], the health problems we face remain similar to those of the last century. Furthermore, the number of 'unhealthy' days (in terms of physical or mental ill health ...
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recognition of psychosomatic disorders. Liaison psychiatry demands a different set of specialised skills to those required in general adult psychiatry. The liaison psychiatrist must be adept at assessing relevant physical findings in addition to mental state, at engaging individuals with somatic presentations of psychiatric illness and at managing those with psychiatric and physical comorbidity...
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recognition of psychosomatic disorders. Liaison psychiatry demands a different set of specialised skills to those required in general adult psychiatry. The liaison psychiatrist must be adept at assessing relevant physical findings in addition to mental state, at engaging individuals with somatic presentations of psychiatric illness and at managing those with psychiatric and physical comorbidity...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0007-1250,1472-1465
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.204.6.492a