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Psychogeriatric Patients in a General Hospital: Role of Geropsychiatric Consultation *
Author(s) -
Hattori Takao,
Taketani Kazuo,
Esaki Takashi
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1440-1819
pISSN - 1323-1316
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1819.1990.tb01643.x
Subject(s) - mood disorders , referral , general hospital , anxiety , psychiatry , medicine , incidence (geometry) , mood , depression (economics) , pediatrics , family medicine , optics , physics , economics , macroeconomics
A total of 505 elderly patients aged 65 and over, seen at the Department of Psychiatry of Tosei General Hospital, were investigated retrospectively and classified according to the DSM‐III‐R criteria. The increase in the number of psychogeriatric patients over the last two decades was statistically significant. Organic mental disorders were most frequent (51%), followed by mood disorders (22%), sleep disorders (7%), somatoform disorders (6%), anxiety disorders (5%) and others. A high referral rate (42%) and a high incidence of various concurrent physical disorders (52%) were observed, and the role of geropsychiatric consultation in a general hospital was evaluated and discussed.