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AGE AND MORTALITY TRENDS IN RESIDENTS OF AN INSTITUTION FOR THE MENIALLY HANDICAPPED
Author(s) -
RICHARDS B. W.,
SIDDIQUI A. Q.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
journal of intellectual disability research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.941
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1365-2788
pISSN - 0964-2633
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2788.1980.tb00062.x
Subject(s) - citation , institution , medicine , library science , sociology , computer science , social science
Ten years' statistics of age and mortality trends in a large institution are reported. It is shown that the residents are still an ageing population and that the higher mortality of the mentally handicapped is largely due to deaths from respiratory causes, as previously reported. Down syndrome is separately analysed and shows a sharp rise in mortality at a considerably earlier age than other mentally handicapped residents.