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Changes in Cognitive Functioning in Elderly Psychiatric Patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Antonia Whitehead
Antonia Whitehead*
Affiliation:
University of Oxford Department of Psychiatry; University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading, Berkshire
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Summary

Elderly psychiatric patients who were in contact with the hospital one year after in-patient admission were retested on a number of clinical and psychometric measures first done soon after admission. In general, changes were small; and for several measures very high correlations existed between the scores gained on the two occasions. When those patients with uncomplicated chronic brain syndromes were considered separately, increasing impairment was demonstrable.

Type
Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 130 , Issue 6 , June 1977 , pp. 605 - 608
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1977 

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