Arteriosclerotic, Senile and Presenile Psychoses

Abstract

Medicine has lately become conscious of the special problems set by the increase of life expectancy following the hygienic progress of the last half century. General interest has been roused in the modification of diseases when they occur in the middle-aged and elderly, and in the illnesses typical of the later periods of life. From this movement psychiatry has profited in so far as many problems of “geriatrics” prove to be psychological and psychiatric problems. Our knowledge of facts has been confirmed and widened and the contact with general medicine should prove fruitful (Malamud, 1941).