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Older people and personality disorders
— assessment and treatment consideration | | Author(s) | Deborah Morris |
| Journal title | PSIGE Newsletter, no 108, July 2009 |
| Publisher | Psychologists' Special Interest Group in Elderly People - PSIGE, British Psychological Society, July 2009 |
| Pages | pp 4-10 |
| Source | http://www.psige.org.uk |
| Keywords | Personality disorders ; Assessment procedures for mental patients ; Diagnosis ; Psychiatric treatment ; Literature reviews. |
| Annotation | There is now evidence which suggests that people with personality disorders are living longer. Despite this, older people with personality disorders are often excluded from appropriate care and treatment options. This view seems to be confirmed by the absence of discussion of the needs of older people with personality disorders from draft guidelines produced by NICE in 2008 for both anti-social and borderline personality disorders. The author reviews the literature on older people and personality disorders in respect of prevalence rates, assessment and diagnostic process, treatment and management considerations, and psychotherapy. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-100125203 A |
| Classmark | EK: DA:4C: LK7: LP: 64A |
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