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Assessment, Prevention and Control of Mental Disorders in the Elderly — Summarising Co-lecture

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It is difficult usefully to add to four such highquality papers and impossible to summarise them adequately in a short space. I will attempt only to pick out some key points from each, with some comments of my own, and then add some of our experience in Nottingham to provide further material for discussion.

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  1. R. Jones
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  1. University of Heidelberg, P.O. Box 59 70, D-6800, Mannheim, Germany

    Heinz Häfner (Professor of Psychiatry, Director) (Professor of Psychiatry, Director)

  2. Central Institute of Mental Health, P.O. Box 59 70, D-6800, Mannheim, Germany

    Heinz Häfner (Professor of Psychiatry, Director) (Professor of Psychiatry, Director)

  3. Department of Medical Sociology, Central Institute of Mental Health, P.O. Box 59 70, D-6800, Mannheim, Germany

    Günther Moschel (Chairman) (Chairman)

  4. Division of Mental Health, World Health Organization, CH-1211, Geneva 27, Switzerland

    Norman Sartorius (Director) (Director)

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Jones, R. (1986). Assessment, Prevention and Control of Mental Disorders in the Elderly — Summarising Co-lecture. In: Häfner, H., Moschel, G., Sartorius, N. (eds) Mental Health in the Elderly. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70958-6_25

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