Elderly patients with no previous psychiatric history: suicidality and other factors relating to psychiatric acute admissions.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The common recommendation that adults with onset of mental illness after the age of 65 should receive specialised psychogeriatric treatment is based on limited evidence.

Aims

To compare factors related to psychiatric acute admission in older adults who have no previous psychiatric history (NPH) with that of those who have a previous psychiatric history (PPH).

Method

Cross-sectional cohort study of 918 patients aged ≥65 years consecutively admitted to a general adult psychiatric acute unit from 2005 to 2014.

Results

Patients in the NPH group (n = 526) were significantly older than those in the PPH group (n = 391) (77.6 v. 70.9 years P < 0.001), more likely to be men, married or widowed and admitted involuntarily. Diagnostic prevalence in the NPH and P

SUBMITTER: Lund-Heimark H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7345523 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature