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A decade of psychiatric consultation with elderly patients in a Dutch general hospital
T A Roulaux1, T T Oei, M M Jansen op de Haar
1Psychiatric Hospital Reinier van Arkel, 's-Hertogenbosch and Vught, The Netherlands.
International Psychogeriatrics
|January 1, 1993
Abstract:
A retrospective case study of ten years of psychiatric consultation with elderly in a Dutch general hospital is presented. The number of psychiatric consultations is increasing more than would be expected from admission rates or demographic changes. Of these, 25.4% were diagnosed as suffering from mood disorder and 34.1% from organic mental disorder. Somatic and psychiatric diagnoses alone seem inadequate to describe the severe problems of this specific group of patients.