Epidemiology of old age psychiatry

2020 ◽  
pp. 45-76
Author(s):  
Thais Minett ◽  
Carol Brayne ◽  
Blossom C.M Stephan
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
Functional Decline ◽  
The Other ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Epidemiological Research ◽  
Rational Planning ◽  
The World ◽  
Old Age Psychiatry ◽  
Neuropsychiatric Conditions

Epidemiology is the foundation of public health and rational planning of services. In the field of old age psychiatry, the information provided by epidemiological research has been highly influential. As the world older population is growing proportionally faster than the other age segments, there is a continuous need for further epidemiological research in old age psychiatry. Neuropsychiatric conditions, such as depression and dementia, cognitive impairment, and behavioural and functional decline, place a considerable onus on the health, social, and economic systems. This chapter presents some of the world demographic data and basic epidemiological concepts, discusses some methodological issues in the epidemiology of mental disorders in old age, and presents a summary of many of the most important studies in this field.

Epidemiology of old age psychiatry: an overview of concepts and main studies

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thais Minett ◽  
Blossom Stephan ◽  
Carol Brayne
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
Functional Decline ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Epidemiological Research ◽  
Rational Planning ◽  
The World ◽  
Old Age Psychiatry ◽  
Neuropsychiatric Conditions

Epidemiology is the foundation of public health and rational planning of services. In the field of old age psychiatry, the information provided by epidemiological research has been highly influential. As the world older population is growing proportionally faster than the other age segments, there is a continuous need for further epidemiological research in old age psychiatry. Neuropsychiatric conditions, such as depression and dementia, cognitive impairment, behavioural and functional decline, place a considerable onus on the health, social and economic systems. This chapter presents some of the world demographic data and basic epidemiological concepts, discusses some methodological issues in the epidemiology of mental disorders in old age, and presents a summary of many of the most important studies in this field.

Virgil, Aen. 6. 304

1981 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 469-470
Author(s):  
R. D. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
The Other ◽  
The World

In his note on Hesiod, WD 705 M. L. West tentatively suggests adeo for deo, saying rightly that ‘Charon is not a god in the literary tradition generally or in Virgil's scheme’ (see now Austin ad loc.). Palaeographically nothing could be more attractive than this emendation. But for all Virgil's fondness for adeo (see my note on Aen. 3. 203, Fordyce on 7. 427) he (like other authors) does not use it in this intensifying sense with adjectives other than those indicating number (Aen. 3. 203, 7. 629, Geo. 3. 242), nor does he ever use it later than the second foot (3 times out of 31, the other 28 being in the first foot).The difficulty which West is combating is a very real one, but it is not solved by the removal of deo. Virgil's dilemma was that the old ferryman must be as timeless as all the other members of Pluto's establishment, and to achieve this object of portraying an unchanging picture of the machinery of the underworld he has elevated Charon to the rank of dues. In Olympus the gods are frozen at the point suitable for the anthropomorphic vision of them: Cupid is always a boy, Apollo young and handsome, Neptune older and more austere. Similarly Charon is frozen just as he has reached (iam senior) vigorous old age. He may not be, indeed is not, a real god, but he is a necessary part of the world of the gods and so must share their agelessness.

Montaigne on Aging

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia Skenazi
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Philosophical Investigation ◽  
Human Identity ◽  
Cognitive Capacities ◽  
The World

Scholars have long seen in Montaigne’s turn inward, toward a psychological and philosophical investigation of human identity a mark of the modernity of the Essays, but they have focused on a static conception of the self, without taking into account Montaigne’s emphasis on his decline. This article discusses the essayist’s pervasive references to his old age as a way to relate to oneself, the other, the world, and to his literary endeavor. The portrait of the writer as a man growing old is embedded in the systems of knowledge of the day, yet Montaigne’s pragmatic reflections on how to adjust to the damages of time on his physical and cognitive capacities still speak to us.

An Age of Revolutionary Wars: An Historical Parallel

1951 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-141
Author(s):  
Alfred Cobban
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Historical Experience ◽  
Religious Wars ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
The World ◽  
Present World ◽  
Religious War

There is one point on which both sides in the present world conflict are agreed. Each may denounce the leadership of the other side, but neither supposes that a change in leadership would make any difference, because both believe that it is a conflict not of persons or governments, but of principles, or of systems of society. The commonly accepted explanation of the conflict, in short, is that the world is now divided between Communism and Capitalism. At the risk of seeming paradoxical it must be asked what this explanation explains, and whether, in fact, it does anything but provide convenient labels for the opposing forces. The implied assumption that states with differing economic systems must necessarily be hostile to one another is at least unproved, and goes against historical experience. It would be easier to explain the conflict as a religious war, and Communism certainly exhibits many of the features of a militant religion, but can we be quite content to dismiss Communists and capitalists as the Protestants and Catholics of the twentieth century? And if we are, can we find many religious wars in which secular and political interests did not provide as strong or stronger a motive than religion?

scholarly journals Andreasa Bana ucieczka ze świata „Belladonna” Dašy Drndić i „O starzeniu się” Jeana Améry’ego

2017 ◽  
Vol 163 ◽  
pp. 783-793
Author(s):  
Sabina Giergiel
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
The Other ◽  
Final Phase ◽  
The World

Andreas Ban’s escape from the world. Daša Drndić’s Belladonna and Jean Améry’s On Aging The paper analyses the final phase in the life of of Daša Drndić’s Belladonna’s protagonist. In the last years of his existence, Andreas Ban’s consciousness is dominated by the thoughts about illness and the nearing retirement. Commonly, both these phenomena mark the threshold of an old age. When it comes to this particular character, they amplify the sensation of solitude initially stemming from the keen sense of criticism that Ban displays as well as impotence connected to the disagreement with the existence of asenile and poor life of an aged man to which Ban is doomed. Drndić uses her novel’s protagonist to accuse both the Croatian state and the contemporary civilization of fetishizing youth and beauty, which, in turn, sentences the Other to “non-existence” in Drndić’s prose, the Other is always anonconformist who, additionally in her latest novel, is in advanced age.Beg sa sveta Andreasa Bana. Belladonna Daše Drndić i O starenju Žana AmeriU tekstu se analiziraju poslednje godine života Andreasa Bana – glavnog lika romana Bel­ladonna D. Drndić. Pred kraj života Ban je obuzet mislima obolesti ipenziji koja ga čeka. Mnogi misle da su ove dve pojave obeležje starosti. Kod Bana one stvaraju osećaj otuđenosti/usamljeno­sti, koji proizilazi iz izrazite kritičnosti, karakterične za ovaj lik, inemoći, učijoj je osnovi pobu­namrzovoljnog isiromašnog starcaprotiv života, na koji je prinuđen. Kroz sudbinu svog junaka Daša Drndić optužuje hrvatsko društvo, kao isavremenu civilizacijiu koja, idealizujući mladost ilepotu istovremeno osuđuje na nepostojanje „Drugo” „Drugi” upoetici ove spisateljice označava nonkonformistu, koji je uovom slučaju vremešan.

Teaching and training in old age psychiatry: a general survey of the World Psychiatric Association member societies

2003 ◽  
Vol 18 (8) ◽  
pp. 694-699 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent Camus ◽  
Cornelius Katona ◽  
Carlos Augusto de Mendonça Lima ◽  
Addul Moneim Abdel Hakam ◽  
Nori Graham ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
General Survey ◽  
Association Member ◽  
The World ◽  
Old Age Psychiatry ◽  
And Training

OAP Actual Problems in European Countries

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (S1) ◽  
pp. 1-1 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Firmino ◽  
N. Tataru
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Dementia Care ◽  
World Population ◽  
List Type ◽  
Ethical Aspect ◽  
The World ◽  
Old Age Psychiatry ◽  
And Training

Aging of the world population risks to be accompanied by an increase of chronic health problems, and most particularly of mental health problems. To face to these problems the organization of care and education in old age psychiatry is still quite insufficient worldwide. Like in all countries in this part of the world, the geriatric psychiatry is still not enough represented. Only in some countries in Europe old age psychiatry is a recognized specialty (18% of European region countries responded at a WPA survey of teaching and training in OAP). The number of professionals working in the field is still very low to satisfy the needs of care of elderly with mental disorders. There is inadequate training for formal caregivers and lack of support for informal ones. This is the reason to support the development of postgraduate education on old age psychiatry as a priority in Europe. We discuss about teaching and training in old age psychiatry, psychiatric and psychological expertise exams and the assessment of competence in dementia and ethical aspect of care and research in elderly demented people.We also present some aspects of elderly sexuality and abuse and about mental health from strategy to reality and dementia care in different Europe countries.Chairs: Horacio Firmino-Portugal, Nicoleta Tataru-Romania.Speakers:1.Alexandra Milicevic-Kalasic, Serbia: ‘Mental Health in Serbia-from Strategy to Reality’.2.Horacio Firmino, Portugal: ‘Education on Old Age Psychiatry at Europe: facts and proposals’.3.Ilkin Icelly, Turkey: ‘Elderly abuse in Turkey’.4.Jerzy Leszek, Poland: ‘Dementia care in Poland’.

scholarly journals 112 - Teaching and Training Old Age Psychiatry around the world

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (S1) ◽  
pp. 26-26
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Clinical Training ◽  
Educational Strategies ◽  
The World ◽  
Old Age Psychiatry ◽  
And Training

Summary:In response to the global challenges of population aging in the World, it is crucial to improve research, education and clinical training in old age in order to meet the growing demands placed on psychogeriatric care services.An overview is provided on the status of old age psychology and psychiatry, and other health professionals, as part of the multidisciplinary care delivery system for the elderly in the World. Available educational offerings and clinical training in geriatric mental health and geriatrics at both undergraduate and postgraduate level are described.Important issues raised include the need for more educational and clinical training programs for specialists, a broader commitment to aging research and the need to increase interest in working with older adults among students across disciplines at the medical, psychological and education faculties and hospitals.This educational initiative must focus not only on the transmission of knowledge on aging-related topics, but also on the training of specific skills and competencies.An effective intervention in psychogeriatrics should involve a strategy with the participation of a multidimensional network that includes the commitment of researchers, educators, clinicians, health policy-makers and older adults.Several recommendations to improve educational strategies concerning late life mental health care are presented to promote discussion, and develop new educational strategies.Presenters:Horácio Firmino – Advances at educational at the curriculum of the new Psychiatrists and other mental health professionals at PortugalCarlos A. de Mendonça Lima- The WPA survey on Teaching and Training in Old Age Psychiatry: 2001-2018Manuel Sanchez Perez – Mental Health Educational Reality at SpainManuel Teixeira Verissimo – Geriatrics New or Old discipline- educational perspectives of Europe and the reality of Portugal

scholarly journals Most-Favored Nation Treatment in Trade Under Central Planning

Slavic Review ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward A. Hewett
Keyword(s):  
Market Economy ◽  
Central Planning ◽  
The Other ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Most Favored Nation ◽  
Total Trade ◽  
Market Economies ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government

All economic systems have ways in which they determine how much their total trade with the world will be, what commodities will make up that total, and the destinations and sources of those commodities (the geographic composition of exports and imports). In Western economies, which rely heavily on markets, the values of these variables summarize the outcome of a myriad of private decisions, with some influence of governments primarily through tariffs and quotas. In Eastern economies, which rely heavily on central planning, the government itself through its planners directly determines the value of those same variables.The concept of Most-Favored Nation (MFN) treatment evolved as a mechanism by which governments in market economies could agree mutually to limit interference in private decisions on trade, with the expected consequence being an increase in trade and welfare. When two market economy governments agree to accord MFN treatment to each other's commodities, it means (in its simplest form) that tariffs applied in each country to commodities imported from the other country shall be no higher than the lowest tariffs charged on imports of those commodities from any destination.

scholarly journals Comparative analysis of the American and Swedish economic system from the perspective of the property rights theory

Equilibrium ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-153
Author(s):  
Paweł Umiński
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Main Subject ◽  
Developed Economies ◽  
The World ◽  
Property Rights Theory ◽  
Ownership Rights

The article presents a comparison of the two most developed economies in the world – Swedish and American. The main subject of the paper is the range of property rights in those two types of economic systems. Economy of The United States of America resembles the theory of capitalism the most, so it has the largest range of property rights. Swedish state; on the other hand, often interferes with the market, thus restricts ownership rights. It seems that these differences do not have the key impact on the economic efficiency of those countries.

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