title: Psychiatric disorder in the middle-aged and elderly mentally handicapped.
abstract: In a study of 357 long-stay hospital residents aged 40 years and over, 30% had significant psychiatric disorder, while a retrospective survey of 215 new admissions over a seven-year period to a psychiatric unit for the mentally handicapped revealed that 20% of patients were aged 40 years and over. Both similarities and differences were found in the overall pattern of disorders between the two groups and a non-handicapped population in a comparable age-range.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D003704:Dementia / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000150:complications*; D008134:Long-Term Care; D008875:Middle Aged; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000150:complications*; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000150:complications*; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000150:complications*; D012737:Sex Factors