Prevalence of mental disorders in elderly people: the European MentDis_ICF65+ study

Sylke Andreas¹, Holger Schulz², Jana Volkert²+19

• ¹Sylke Andreas, PhD, Department of Medical Psychology, University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany and Institute of Psychology, Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria; Holger Schulz, PhD, Jana Volkert, PhD, Maria Dehoust, PhD, Department of Medical Psychology, University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; Susanne Sehner, MSc, Anna Suling, PhD, Department of Biometry and Epidemiology, University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; Berta Ausín, PhD, School of Psychology, University Complutense of Madrid, Madrid, Spain; Alessandra Canuto, PhD, Division of Liaison Psychiatry and Crisis Intervention, Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University Hospitals of Geneva (HUG), Geneva, Switzerland; Mike Crawford, MD, Royal College of Psychiatrists, London, UK; Chiara Da Ronch, PhD, Luigi Grassi, MD, Section of Psychiatry, Department of Biomedical and Specialty Surgical Sciences, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy; Yael Hershkovitz, MSc, Department of Psychiatry, Hadassah University Medical Center, Kiryat Hadassah, Jerusalem, Israel; Manuel Muñoz, PhD, School of Psychology, University Complutense of Madrid, Madrid, Spain; Alan Quirk, PhD, Royal College of Psychiatrists, London, UK; Ora Rotenstein, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, Hadassah University Medical Center, Kiryat Hadassah, Jerusalem, Israel; Ana Belén Santos-Olmo, MSc, School of Psychology, University Complutense of Madrid, Madrid, Spain; Arieh Shalev, MD, Department of Psychiatry, Hadassah University Medical Center, Kiryat Hadassah, Jerusalem, Israel; Jens Strehle, MSc, Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Center of Clinical Epidemiology and Longitudinal Studies, Dresden, Germany; Kerstin Weber, PhD, Division of Liaison Psychiatry and Crisis Intervention, Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University Hospitals of Geneva (HUG), Geneva, Switzerland; Karl Wegscheider, PhD, Department of Biometry and Epidemiology, University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; Hans-Ulrich Wittchen, PhD, Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Center of Clinical Epidemiology and Longitudinal Studies, Dresden, Germany; Martin Härter, PhD, Department of Medical Psychology, University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany sandreas@uke.de.+1