Old Age Mental Disorders in Newcastle upon Tyne

1964 ◽  
Vol 110 (468) ◽  
pp. 668-682 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. W. K. Kay ◽  
P. Beamish ◽  
Martin Roth
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Functional Disorders ◽  
Old People ◽  
Social Contacts ◽  
Medical Status ◽  
Organic Brain ◽  
Domestic Support ◽  
Newcastle Upon Tyne

In a previous paper (Kay, Beamish and Roth, 1963) we studied the prevalence of various kinds of psychiatric disorder in a random sample of old people living at home in Newcastle upon Tyne. During the interviews, special attention was paid to the collection of social data. For, as Townsend (1957a) pointed out, old age is an epoch of diminishing social contacts and domestic support, and isolated old people make disproportionately heavy demands on the institutions of the Health and Welfare Services. By comparing the medical status and social circumstances of subjects with organic brain syndromes, those with functional disorders, and those without psychiatric abnormality, we have attempted to explore further the relative importance of these factors in the two main groups of mental disorders in old age.

Ageing-ethical Issues and Stigma

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (S1) ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
N. Tataru ◽  
A. Dicker
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Mental Disorder ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Individual Development ◽  
Ageing Process ◽  
Old People ◽  
Clinical Disorder ◽  
Normal Ageing

During the twentieth century, many behavioural and biological theories of aging have been advanced that ageing is a multidimensional phenomenon. Ageing is a progressive decline in function and performance, which accompanies advancing years. Cicero noticed that the old people preserved their intellects if they maintained their interests.To the social, economical and medical problems that old age arises to the society, one may add the continue increase of old people proportion in the general population. The ageing of population is becoming a reality in developed and in less developed countries too. We talk about a conceptual definition of normal ageing and also about successful and morbid ageing. Normal ageing is an ageing process without any clinical somatic or mental disorder and a morbid ageing is characterized by a process presenting clinical disorders which affects the somatic and mental health, the successful ageing being an ageing process in a favourable environmental conditions to promote individual development. We can consider not only the presence/absence of a disorder but also its impact in someone's life. The functioning capacity loss could be considered as a marker of the presence of a clinical disorder.Stigma remains a major obstacle to ensuring access to good care for elderly with mental disorders, these patients suffers of a double jeopardy (old age and mental disorders). Both stigma and discrimination against these old persons depend on the type of mental disorder and we have to protect them against discrimination and improve their quality of life.

Old Age Mental Disorders in Newcastle upon Tyne

1964 ◽  
Vol 110 (465) ◽  
pp. 146-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. W. K. Kay ◽  
P. Beamish ◽  
Martin Roth
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Population Studies ◽  
Rural Practice ◽  
Community Surveys ◽  
Mental Disturbance ◽  
High Prevalence ◽  
Formed Part ◽  
Newcastle Upon Tyne

Community surveys abroad have shown that there is a high prevalence of serious mental illness in old age, much of which is not treated in hospital (Gruenberg, 1961; Nielsen, 1963). Most community surveys of the aged in this country have, however, been concerned chiefly with general medical and social problems (Sheldon, 1948; Simonds and Stewart, 1954), or have formed part of whole-population studies and recorded only the most severe kinds of mental disturbance in old age (Mayer-Gross, 1948). An exception is the study of a Scottish rural practice by Primrose (1962).

The Biopsychosocial Paradigm in the Assessment of Mental Health of Older Persons

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (S1) ◽  
pp. S464-S464
Author(s):  
L. Pishchikova
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Psychiatric Hospital ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Physical Assault ◽  
Dynamic Features ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Forensic Psychiatric ◽  
Biopsychosocial Determinants

The vulnerability of patients of late age in psychiatry increases the professional and ethical requirements to the quality of psychiatric and forensic psychiatric help. It must account for the clinical and dynamic features of mental disorders in old age, biopsychosocial determinants of their formation, be based on a conceptual approach and a comprehensive understanding of the involution processes. To identify biopsychosocial determinants of mental disorders in old age and (or) involving patients to the forensic psychiatric examination, we examined 235 late age patients in criminal and civil cases. Revealed: «non-dement» mental disorders – with 45.5%, psychosis – with 7.7%, dementia – with 46,8%. The results of biopsychosocial determinants of involution are determined as follows: biological: sensory and motor deprivation, multicomorbid somatic neurological pathology, specific syndromes and disorders if late age, dementia; socio-psychological: termination of labor activity, living alone and loneliness, problematic relationship with children because of housing disputes and alcohol; legal: conclusion and contestation of legal civil acts, participation in criminal proceedings as victims and defendants, legal illiteracy, legal controversy, lack of legal protection; victimological: physical (assault, abuse), psychological (threats of commitment into social security institutions, involuntary commitment to a psychiatric hospital and examination by a psychiatrist, hold in the psychiatric hospital), financial violence (fraud with housing for older people and deception, manipulation during conclusion of civil-legal acts), violation of rights of older person (unlawful deprivation of legal capacity).Disclosure of interestThe author has not supplied his/her declaration of competing interest.

What does low psychological distress mean in patients with no mental disorders and different pains of the musculoskeletal system?

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Brinkers ◽  
Giselher Pfau ◽  
Wolfgang Ritz ◽  
Frank Meyer ◽  
Moritz Kretzschmar
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Mental Disorder ◽  
Musculoskeletal System ◽  
Management Program ◽  
Insurance Companies ◽  
Functional Disorders ◽  
Healthy Individuals ◽  
Pain Management Program ◽  
Icd 10

Abstract Objectives The aim of this study is to define the different levels of psychological distress in patients suffering from pain and functional disorders of the musculoskeletal system. Methods This investigation was conducted as a retrospective study of 60 patients randomly selected of a German specialized orthopaedic hospital within the year 2016, whose therapeutic approaches are based on a non-surgical orthopaedic multimodal approach of manual therapy. All patients were suffering from pain and functional disorders of the musculoskeletal system. Two groups were formed: one without and one with additional mental disorders according to ICD-10. The impairment score (ISS) according to Schepank was determined. Results The somatic sub score of the ISS was the highest sub score in both patient groups. The cumulative value of the ISS score of patients with both a mental disorder and pain in the musculoskeletal system was higher than for patients without concomitant mental disorder. For patients without concomitant mental disorder, the cumulative ISS exceeded the test criteria for mentally healthy individuals. Conclusions Patients without mental disorder but with chronic pain of the locomotoric system receive a psychological pain management program, as it is part of the billing code OPS 8-977 to the health insurance companies in Germany. However, the data show that these patients also have a substantial somatic subscore and a cumulative ISS above the level of healthy individuals. The absence of psychological disorders (according to ICD-10) in patients with pain of the musculoskeletal system should not lead to the assumption that these patients are psychologically inconspicuous. Subsyndromal mental findings (below ICD-10) can be one aspect of a mental disorder presenting with primarily somatic symptoms. In this case, patients would benefit from a psychotherapeutic program in a similar way as the patients with mental disorders according to ICD-10.

scholarly journals Afrontamiento de problemas de salud en personas muy mayores

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 1008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana B. Navarro ◽  
Belén Bueno
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Satisfaction With Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Old People ◽  
Very Old ◽  
Degree Of Satisfaction ◽  
The One ◽  
Performance Results

<p>This paper assesses the strategies for coping with health problems in advanced old age and their contribution in terms of several performance results. 159 people aged 75 or over and living at home identified their most recent health problem, the strategies used to deal with it, their perception of self-efficacy in handling the problem and their degree of satisfaction with life. The results confirm the use of a range of strategies, with the active-behavioural approach to solving the problem being the one most widely used. In addition, together with active coping strategies of both a cognitive and behavioural nature, correlational analyses indicate that very old people resort to passive and avoidance coping methods. Furthermore, multiple regression analyses highlight the fact that the use of direct and rational actions for solving health problems predicts self-efficacy in dealing with the problem and protects satisfaction with life at this stage. These results confirm that very old people retain the ability to deal effectively with their health problems and, at the same time, uphold their well-being, providing evidence of the adaptive role of coping in very old age.</p>

scholarly journals Understanding and handling mental disorders in the aged

Curationis ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
L.S. Gillis
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Psychological Symptoms ◽  
Emotional Disturbances ◽  
Old People ◽  
Psychiatric Disturbances

The serious psychiatric disturbances of old people are a matter for experts, but lesser psychological symptoms and emotional disturbances are frequent and sometimes alarming.

scholarly journals The Archaeology of Old Age

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-178
Author(s):  
Stig Welinder
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Burial Ground ◽  
Cultural Variation ◽  
Old People ◽  
Complex Concept ◽  
Anthropological Theory ◽  
Burial Grounds ◽  
The Way

Prehistoric people sometimes died at an old age to judge by the longevity of life estimated from skeletal data. Anthropology, however, suggests that old age is a much more complex concept than that. The process of growing old that is stressed in the anthropological theory of old people may advantageously be discussed on the basis of prehistoric burial-ground data. Examples from Swedish burial-grounds hint at a cultural variation in the way in which prehistoric societies viewed old age.

scholarly journals MENTAL DISORDERS AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON THE COMMITMENT TO OBSERVATION IN THE INFECTIONIST IN HIVINFECTED PATIENTS WITH EARLY SYPHILIS

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. M. Chumakov ◽  
N. N. Petrova ◽  
V. V. Rassokhin
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Hiv Infection ◽  
Brain Damage ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Minor Role ◽  
Syphilis Infection ◽  
Addictive Disorders ◽  
Early Syphilis ◽  
Organic Brain ◽  
Epidemiological Characteristics

HIV and syphilis have similar epidemiological characteristics which causes a high level of combined infection. Both STDs affect the central nervous system early after infection. Mental disorders occur with a high incidence in HIV-infected patients and patients with syphilis, but data on the effect of combined HIV and syphilis infection on mental disorders are found only in single articles. Objectives. The goal is to study mental disorders and their effect on the commitment to observation in the infectionist in HIV-infected patients with early syphilis. Materials and methods. A comparative study of 148 patients (65 HIV-infected patients with syphilis, 50 patients with syphilis monoinfection, 33 HIV-infected patients, seronegative for syphilis) was carried out. We used clinical, psychopathological, follow-up, psychometric, laboratory and statistical methods of investigation. Results. It was found that mental disorders occur in the majority (83%) of HIV-infected patients with syphilis with the predominance of affective (54%) and addictive (48%) disorders. In HIV-infected patients with early neurosyphilis, psychogenic reactions developed statistically significantly more often than in HIV-infected patients with early syphilis. In contrast, there were no statistically significant differences in the incidence of addictive, affective, personality disorders and mental disorders due to organic brain damage in patients with early neurosyphilis and early syphilis in the case of co-infection with HIV infection. Mental disorders due to organic brain damage had a mixed genesis (including infectious) in all cases and were associated and caused by the already existing HIV infection. HIV-infected patients with syphilis, in general, were characterized by the low commitment to observation in the infectionist which were influenced by the following factors: social maladjustment, drug abuse and criminal activity. Discussion. The frequency of detected mental disorders in the examined HIV-infected patients with syphilis (83,1%) corresponded to the literature on the incidence of mental illness in HIVinfected patients inSt. Petersburg(85,6%), but was higher than the prevalence of mental disorders in patients with syphilis (68%). Given the established influence of neurosyphilis mono-infection on the development of mental disorders due to organic brain damage, it can be concluded that the disease with early neurosyphilis is important in the development of mental disorders of organic genesis. But the weight of this factor is insufficient in case of co-infection with HIV and early neurosyphilis and can only have additional significance in the development of mental disorders and the key factor is HIV-infection action. Mental disorders (addictive disorders and cognitive impairment) adversely affect the commitment to observation in the infectionist of HIV-infected patients with syphilis, therefore timely correction of mental disorders may be one of the factors improving compliance of patients. Conclusions. The study found a minor role of early neurosyphilis (as opposed to HIV infection) on the formation of mental disorders in the case of a combination of these infections. At the same time, it was found that addictive and cognitive symptomatic complexes have a negative impact on the probability of reference to an infectious disease specialist for initiating therapy in HIV-infected patients with syphilis.

scholarly journals A Comparative Study of Mental Health among Old People

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vandana N Solanki
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Old Age ◽  
T Test ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Old People ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
And Gender

The study was intended to examine the effect of mental health on old people. Aim: The aim was to estimate the prevalence of mental health in old people and to determine the association of mental health with types of family and gender. Sample: The sample consists of 120 old people from different old age home and family in Rajkot district area. The sample was selected from randomly. Design: 2*2research design was used the present study. Tools: Mental Health was measured through a questionnaire ‘Mental Health Inventory’was used. Test developed by Bhatt D & Gida G. in (1992).The data was analyzed by the t test. Results: There will be no significant difference between Gender and Types of Area in relation to their mental health. Conclusions: Our study demonstrates a higher prevalence of mental health in old people.

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