scholarly journals Dr. Ant, Ritti. Les psychoses de la vieillesse. —Archives cliniques de Bordeaux. № 8, 1895

2020 ◽  
Vol V (1) ◽  
pp. 182-185
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorder ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Old People

The group of senile psychoses, the author says, can only include those that develop in old people who have not suffered from any mental disorder before. The author tries to classify the psychoses of old age, at which it is stipulated that he proposes his own classification without claims to its naturalness.

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.

scholarly journals The developmental history of mental disorder in old age

1988 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 476-480 ◽  
Author(s):  
John R. Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorder ◽  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Developmental History ◽  
Demographic Shift ◽  
Old People ◽  
History Of

A worldwide demographic shift towards old age is being accompanied by a corresponding increase in the number of old people presenting with psychiatric disorders, and traditional systems are unable to cope with the problem.

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.

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 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 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.

scholarly journals CURRENT CONCEPTUAL APPROACHES FOR ASSESSMENT OF THE PROCESS OF AGEING AND OLD AGE

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 722-727
Author(s):  
Vanina Mihaylova ◽  
Dimitar Shopov ◽  
Iliya Bivolarski ◽  
Adolf Alakidi ◽  
Kristina Kilova
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Positive Attitude ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Good Health ◽  
Old People ◽  
Active Approach ◽  
Quality Life ◽  
Long Life ◽  
Elderly And Old People

: Ageing should be considered not only as an increase in the number of elderly and old people in their absolute and relative numbers, but also as a unity of the transformations of the lifecycle, with an emphasis on: later retirement, prolonged period of good‑quality life, an active approach towards the process of retirement and differentiation of the category of “fourth age”. The general preparation for old age has earned a new appeal in the contemporary societies. Motivation of the old people for activity – both physical and intellectual – is of great importance for the better survival of the old age and long life in good health, supported by realized well-being and feeling of joy from life. In this aspect the study of both risk and protective factors for human health (in a salutogenetic perspective) becomes increasingly fundamental. The issue of population at an advanced age has definitely been considered as an independent subject since the beginning of the 21st century. Moreover, the society perceives it as an essential basis for further progress and flourishing of the mankind. In this sense the demographic strategies treating the problem need to address it in a new positive way, with different and positive attitude, accepting the population-related failures and anxiety and turning them into challenges and advantages.

Comunicare con il vecchio in difficoltŕ

IKON ◽  
2009 ◽  
pp. 111-149
Author(s):  
Carlo Cristini ◽  
Marcello Cesa-Bianchi
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Clinical Symptoms ◽  
Living Organism ◽  
Old People ◽  
Behavioral Disturbances ◽  
Clinical Pain ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Old Age Depression ◽  
The Relationship

- Increase aged produces more specific dangers about health and autonomy for many old people; it is possibile to see in aged a life dicotomy: from one side autonomies, creatives, enterprising, propositives old people, from other side old people present loose of physical and mental autonomy. There are many factors that may cause with years disabilities conditions: from changes of living organism in males and females climacteric, from loneliness to alienation, from illness to institutionalized. In old age happen traumatic events, more than other phases of life, as situations about (affective, social, professional and healthy loses) that may produce clinical pain, an affecctive and cognitive decline. In old age depression and dementia represent the more frequent mental and behavioral disturbances. Of course becomes more important to learn, to analyse knolewdge and communication, suffering aged and wih his family. The relationship especially with dement, requires attention, sensitiveness, the decodification of messages, of his identity and of social relationship. Some health workers mind always to some meanings in communication that are to be analysed especially in suffering aged, with dement. Communication and understanding of old people mean give opportunities of support, of changing, of relieving painful and of its clinical symptoms.

Old Lives

2020 ◽  
pp. 61-88
Author(s):  
Maren Tova Linett
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
New World ◽  
Thought Experiment ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Old People ◽  
World State ◽  
The World ◽  
Brave New World ◽  
Age Reading

Chapter 2 takes a disability studies approach to aging by viewing Brave New World (1932) as a thought experiment that explores the value of old age. Reading the novel alongside Ezekiel Emanuel’s claim that it would be best for everyone to die at around age seventy-five, before their abilities begin to decline, the chapter reads the absence of old people in the World State as an aspect of its dystopia. The chapter first argues that the persistent youth embraced by the society robs life of its narrative arc and thereby of an important aspect of its meaning. It then explores the reasons suggested by the novel that such a sacrifice of life narratives is not worthwhile, even to avoid periods of possible disability or frailty. Brave New World makes clear that the excision of old age has significant political, moral, and emotional costs.

Mental Disorder in Old Age

BMJ ◽  
1962 ◽  
Vol 2 (5311) ◽  
pp. 1062-1062
Author(s):  
J. Agate
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorder ◽  
Old Age
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