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MARJORIE FISKE LOWENTHAL

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1965;12(3):245-254.

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Background

RESEARCH ON the mental disorders of old age, as on those of younger age groups, has demonstrated that the mentally ill, both hospitalized and nonhospitalized, are considerably more socially isolated than are their healthier peers. The findings of the overall research program (see end of article) on which this study is based are no exception. Berkman, in his analysis of the correlates of psychiatric disability in a community sample of 600, has shown that at all age levels over the age of 60, those suffering from moderate or severe psychiatric disability live a more restricted social life than do those who are psychiatrically healthy.² Comparisons between this community sample and a group of 534 elderly persons hospitalized for psychiatric reasons for the first time at age 60 and over reveal very dramatic differences between the two groups on a number of measures of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
SAN FRANCISCO

Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute, California Department of Mental Hygiene and Department of Psychiatry, University of California School of Medicine.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Aug 18, 1964.

Read before the annual meetings of the American Psychological Association, Los Angeles, Sept 7, 1964.

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See, for example, Palmer and Sherman17; Cameron 4; Bigelow3; Linden11; Vispo25; Titley24; and Diethelm and Rockwell.6 Stenbäck, however, in reviewing the work of a number of American and European psychiatrists, does not find the evidence for predisposing personality, at least in relation to the disorders of middle life, very convincing.22

See, for example, Rothschild19; Ferraro7,8; Sands and Rothschild20; Clow5; Gal9; and Wolff.20

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