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‘Graduates’

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 1997

Mark C Dale  and
Alistair Burns
Mark C Dale
Affiliation:
Withington Hospital, Manchester, UK
Alistair Burns
Affiliation:
Withington Hospital, Manchester, UK
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Abstract

The term 'graduate' (hereafter without quotation marks) has been used to describe the following groups of patients:

1) All those patients with enduring psychiatric illness who have graduated to old age (usually defined as age over 65 years);

2) 'Patients who entered hospitals for the mentally ill before modern methods of treatment were available and have grown old in them after many years there.'

3) Specifically, long-stay patients with schizophrenia over the age of 65 years who came into continuous psychiatric contact well before that age.

Type
Review Article
Information
Reviews in Clinical Gerontology , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , August 1997 , pp. 273 - 285
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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