Geriatric psychiatry
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Name (Hebrew)
פסיכיאטריה גריאטרית
Name (Latin)
Geriatric psychiatry
Name (Arabic)
الطب النفسي للمسنين
Other forms of name
Older people
Gerontopsychiatry
Geropsychiatry
Psychiatry, Geriatric
Psychogeriatrics
See Also From tracing topical name
Psychiatry
Older people Mental health
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q1278031
Library of congress:
sh 85054311
Sources of Information
- Verwoert's clinical psychiatry, c1990.
Wikipedia description:
Geriatric psychiatry, also known as geropsychiatry, psychogeriatrics or psychiatry of old age, is a branch of medicine and a subspecialty of psychiatry dealing with the study, prevention, and treatment of neurodegenerative, cognitive impairment, and mental disorders in people of old age. Geriatric psychiatry as a subspecialty has significant overlap with the specialties of geriatric medicine, behavioral neurology, neuropsychiatry, neurology, and general psychiatry. Geriatric psychiatry has become an official subspecialty of psychiatry with a defined curriculum of study and core competencies.
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