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| The relationship between anxiety disorders and age | | Author(s) | Christopher Krasucki, Robert Howard, Anthony Mann |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 13, no 2, February 1998 |
| Pages | pp 79-99 |
| Keywords | Anxiety ; Depression ; Phobias ; Agoraphobia ; Obsessive compulsive disorders ; Ageing process ; Relational concepts ; Literature reviews. |
| Annotation | The authors review community-based epidemiological studies which have reported data on anxiety disorders in those aged 65 and over, to examine age-related changes in their prevalence and incidence. Sources were selected from citations in the BIDS, EMBASE, Medline and PsychLit databases. The article examines prevalence and age and gender trends of phobic disorders, agoraphobia, social phobia, specific phobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder, and generalised anxiety disorder. Anxiety disorders are more prevalent in women than men; but this difference diminishes with increasing age, with the exception of generalised anxiety which appears to be maintained or to increase. Explanations for this reduction are discussed, the most important being cohort effects, anxiety-related mortality, and comorbidity between anxiety and cognitive impairment. Combining use of psychic, somatic and behavioural approaches is advocated in future studies of age-related changes, which may lead to a reappraisal of the status of generalised anxiety as a 'residual category'. |
| Accession Number | CPA-980227001 A |
| Classmark | ENP: ENR: ENG: ENH: ENB: BG: 47: 64A |
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