Abstract
Study of the growing public health problem of mental disorder in the elderly has led workers in a number of countries to call for new approaches to early case-detection and diagnosis, as part of a move towards more effective secondary prevention of these conditions. In particular, it seems important to screen those subgroups of the elderly population with an increased risk for psychiatric illness, among which must be counted old people discharged from hospital inpatient care (Bergmann 1982).
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Cooper, B., Bickel, H. (1987). Old People in Hospital: A Study of a Psychiatric High-Risk Group. In: Angermeyer, M.C. (eds) From Social Class to Social Stress. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-52057-0_14
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