An epidemiological study of dementia under the aegis of mental health program, Maharashtra, Pune chapter
Author(s) -
Daniel Saldanha,
MajRaghunandan Mani,
Kalpana Srivastava,
Sunil Goyal,
Debdutta Bhattacharya
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
indian journal of psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.485
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1998-3794
pISSN - 0019-5545
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5545.64588
Subject(s) - dementia , population , medicine , functional illiteracy , gerontology , epidemiology , mental health , literacy , psychiatry , disease , psychology , environmental health , pathology , pedagogy , political science , law
There has been an exponential growth in the number of elderly population in India. This study aims to determine the prevalence of dementia in an urban center of Pune and to evaluate the corresponding socio-demographic correlates along with psychiatric morbidity in the study sample.
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