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Volume 7, suplement 1

Badania

Mental disorders in the elderly hospitalized in psychiatry department of III WOLP in Toruń in the years 1994-1996

STANISŁAW IZDEBSKI1, JAROSŁAW ŁĄCZKOWSKI1, MARZENA MARYNIAK-WIŚNIEWSKA1
1. Wojewódzkiego Ośrodka Lecznictwa Psychiatrycznego w Toruniu
Postępy Psychiatrii i Neurologii, 1998, 7, suplement 1 (6), 79-81
Keywords: old age, mental disorders, causes of hospitalization

Abstract

The study deals with elderly female in patients treated at a general psychiatry ward. Patients in this age range constituted almost 20% of total admissions. Mean duration of the elderly inpatients' stay was not much longer than that of the remaining patients. The most frequent diagnosis in this age group was depression. In 15% of cases hospitalization was due to qualitative impairment of consciousness resulting from an underlying somatic disease.

Address for correspondence:
Dr Stanisław Izdebski, Wojewódzki Ośrodek Lecznictwa Psychiatrycznego,
ul. Mickiewicza 24/26, 87-100 Toruń