Open AccessDelusions of pregnancy in older women: a case series: Table 1.
Author(s) -
Patricia Guilfoyle,
Helen O’Brien,
Shaun T. O’Keeffe
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
age and ageing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.014
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1468-2834
pISSN - 0002-0729
DOI - 10.1093/ageing/afv127
Subject(s) - delusion , medicine , constipation , delirium , dementia , pregnancy , pediatrics , psychiatry , antipsychotic , childbirth , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , surgery , disease , biology , genetics
Delusions of pregnancy have been reported in a wide variety of functional and organic psychiatric conditions but rarely with dementia. Most such delusions arise in women of child-bearing age. We report five cases in older women all of whom had severe constipation that probably precipitated this delusion.
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