Message to PSYCHOGERIATRICS

Welcoming Message to the JIRSS

It is a great honor to be invited to contribute to the first issue of the Journal of the Iranian Statistical Society. May the Journal and those associated with it have great success in attaining its goals and in furthering the progress of statistical science. While there has been worldwide recognition of the important role that statistics and statisticians play in producing progress in science ...

Qualitative research in psychogeriatrics.

Over the past twenty years, qualitative research has gained recognition as a useful approach to scientific inquiry on issues related to health and health care, including those of particular interest to psychogeriatrics. This is evidenced not only by the inclusion of health-related qualitative reports in exclusively qualitative publications but also by their acceptance in venues that have tradit...

Psychogeriatrics--an interdisciplinary specialty.

Psychogeriatrics and the neo-epidemiologists

A generation later, this verdict is difficult to reconcile with the widespread concern aroused by the lengthening human life-span. In retrospect, it is significant that the WHO report barely mentioned the epidemiological contribution to its subject-matter. Times have changed. The epidemiological perspective has now become indispensable not only for the psychiatrist concerned with the assessment...

Psychogeriatrics and the neo-epidemiologists.

A generation later, this verdict is difficult to reconcile with the widespread concern aroused by the lengthening human life-span. In retrospect, it is significant that the WHO report barely mentioned the epidemiological contribution to its subject-matter. Times have changed. The epidemiological perspective has now become indispensable not only for the psychiatrist concerned with the assessment...