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| Hidden psychiatric morbidity in elderly prisoners | | Author(s) | Seena Fazel, Tony Hope, Ian O'Donnell |
| Journal title | British Journal of Psychiatry, vol 179, December 2001 |
| Pages | pp 535-539 |
| Keywords | Mental disorder ; Prisoners ; Assessment procedures for mental patients ; England. |
| Annotation | The number of older prisoners has increased significantly in Western countries over the past decade. A stratified sample of 203 male sentenced prisoners aged over 59 from 15 prisons in England and Wales, representing one in five men in this age group, was interviewed using semi-structured standardised instruments for psychiatric illness and personality disorder. More than half had a psychiatric diagnosis, most common being personality disorder and depressive illness. The prevalence of psychiatric illness was five times greater than that found in other studies of younger prisoners and older people in the community. Underdetected, undertreated depressive illness in older prisoners is an increasing public health problem. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-011205207 A |
| Classmark | E: TGF: DA:4C: 82 |
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