In the first of a series of major articles, David Jolley examines the origins of the psychiatry' of old age and how it has developed to achieve speciality status.
Old age psychiatry received recognition as a speciality within the National Health Service by the Department of Health in the Autumn of 1989. It follows geriatric medicine in a line of peculiarly British contributions to the development of health service delivery to a maturing world population.
Nursing Older People. 2, 6, 24-25. doi: 10.7748/eldc.2.6.24.s19
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