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AGE AND PSYCHOSIS IN DEGENERATIVE DEMENTIA
Author(s) -
NAMBUDIRI DRAUPATHI E.,
TEUSINK J. PAUL,
FENSTERHEIM LEONARD,
YOUNG ROBERT C.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
international journal of geriatric psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.28
H-Index - 129
eISSN - 1099-1166
pISSN - 0885-6230
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-1166(199701)12:1<11::aid-gps435>3.0.co;2-1
Subject(s) - dementia , psychosis , psychiatry , depression (economics) , psychology , degenerative disease , psychotic depression , medicine , central nervous system disease , disease , neuroscience , economics , macroeconomics
Among psychiatric inpatients with primary degenerative dementia, those with psychotic symptoms ( N =20) were older than those without ( N =20) ( t =3.48; p <0.001). Persecutory delusions were the most frequent psychotic phenomena. Duration of dementia overlapped, but scores on the Global Deterioration Scale and the Cornell Scale for Depression in Dementia were lower in the psychotic group after correcting for age. The limited literature concerning demographic and clinical correlates of psychosis in dementia is reviewed; the age difference noted is consistent with two other reports. © 1997 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.