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Psychogeriatrics in the New Century—Issues and Challenge —
Author(s) -
Hasegawa Kazuo
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
psychogeriatrics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.647
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1479-8301
pISSN - 1346-3500
DOI - 10.1111/j.1479-8301.2001.tb00045.x
Subject(s) - task (project management) , service (business) , field (mathematics) , psychology , sociology , public relations , political science , business , management , marketing , economics , mathematics , pure mathematics
Many huge changes have taken place in our own field of psychogeriatrics and psychogeriatric care at the beginning of the new century. The speed of these changes has been extremely rapid, and increasingly difficult problems have emerged. We, thus, must at this juncture gather together our collective wisdom, devise an appropriate approach to the new century, and aggressively tackle those areas that need to be addressed. While predicting the future is by no means an easy task, I would like to discuss the following three points: educational issues, research activities and the psychogeriatric service. I sincerely pray for the future of our psychogeriatric society with a famous religious philosopher Dr. Reinhold Neibuhr “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the coursjge to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”