Hope for the hopeless
David Jolley Consultant, Old Age Psychiatry at Withington Hospital, South Manchester and a member of the Public Education Committee of the Royal College of Psychiatrists
David Jolley discusses how mood disorders in elderly people can be successfully resolved.
Perhaps the greatest difficulty facing a young professional working with elderly people lies in establishing what is normal within an age group that is so much older (often 50 years or so) and which has experienced a life that was so very different in its beginnings.
Nursing Older People.
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