Journal article
Hidden psychiatric morbidity in elderly prisoners.
- Abstract:
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BACKGROUND: The number of elderly prisoners has increased significantly in Western countries over the past decade. Little is known about the psychiatric morbidity of this population. AIMS: To determine the prevalence of psychiatric morbidity in elderly sentenced prisoners. METHOD: A stratified sample of 203 male sentenced prisoners aged over 59 years, from 15 prisons in England and Wales, representing one in five men in this age group, was interviewed using semistructured standardised instrum...
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- Journal:
- British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science
- Volume:
- 179
- Issue:
- DEC.
- Pages:
- 535-539
- Publication date:
- 2001-12-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1472-1465
- ISSN:
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0007-1250
- Source identifiers:
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176971
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- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Pubs id:
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pubs:176971
- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- pubs:176971
- Deposit date:
- 2012-12-19
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- Copyright date:
- 2001
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