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Paths to psychiatric care — a study of the elderly in urban China
Author(s)	Kam Weng Boey
Journal title	Clinical Gerontologist, vol 18, no 2, 1997
Pages	pp 65-80
Source	http://www.tandfonline.com
Keywords	Psychogeriatric patients ; Urban areas ; Costs [care] ; Psychiatric treatment ; Geriatric out-patients clinics ; China.
Annotation	203 first-time patients (mean age 68.8 years) attending a mental health centre in Shanghai were the subjects of this study. It was found that they kept their problems within the immediate family, and tended to delay psychiatric consultation for a long time. Prior to psychiatric consultation, they sought help from Western-style physicians or Chinese herbalists. Most of this study sample were referred by their adult children for treatment of sleep disturbance or paranoid ideations. Not knowing the psychiatric nature of their problems, stigmatisation, and distrust of psychiatric services were found to have prevented them from seeking early psychiatric treatment. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-971204212 A
Classmark	LF:E: RK: QDC: LP: L6G: 7DC
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