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Mental health problems among inhabitants of old age homes: A preliminary study

Author(s) -

Nisha Mani Pandey,

SC Tiwari,

Indrapal N. Singh

Publication year - 2012

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 - 10.4103/0019-5545.99533

Subject(s) - mental health , psychiatry , anxiety , psychosocial , depression (economics) , exploratory research , medicine , mood , family medicine , gerontology , psychology , sociology , anthropology , economics , macroeconomics

An exceptional increase in the number and proportion of older adults in the country, rapid increase in nuclear families, and contemporary changes in psychosocial matrix and values often compel this segment of society to live alone or in old age homes. As this group of people is more vulnerable to mental health problems, therefore a pilot study was carried out by the Department of Geriatric Mental Health, Lucknow with following aim.

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