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Mental illness in late life
— socioeconomic conditions, psychiatric symptoms, and adjustment of long-term sufferers | | Author(s) | Suzanne Meeks, Stanley A Murrell |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 12, no 2, June 1997 |
| Pages | pp 296-308 |
| Keywords | Mental disorder ; Long term ; Symptoms ; Diagnosis ; Economic status [elderly] ; Adjustment ; Living in the community ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The relationship between social and economic conditions and psychiatric disorder among 346 older adults with severe mental illness living in the community are examined, using measures including socioeconomic indices, symptoms, diagnoses, and adjustment. As expected, socioeconomic and illness factors were interrelated in the sample. Diagnosis was related to functioning and socioeconomic factors. Participants were financially impoverished but socially integrated into social networks consisting largely of family; and most were maintaining themselves in the community with at least marginal functioning, though they received little support from the mental health system beyond medication. Compared with younger ones, older people in the sample functioned better, had fewer symptoms, and had better adjustment. Those with co-existing psychotic and affective syndromes were most at risk. |
| Accession Number | CPA-971120260 A |
| Classmark | E: 4Q: CT: LK7: F:W: DR: K4: 7T |
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