[Psychiatric emergencies in the elderly].
If it is common place to claim that old age is not a disease, however the losses and mournings related to that stage of life generate the production of acute psychopathological disorders. A few of them will be approached and treated as emergencies and required from the physician a good command of their existence and of specificities: atypical depressive disorders stressed by the risk of suicide, sits of delusions some themes of which are typical of senesence, excitement and aggressiveness inherent to dementia. As to the ill-treatment of the elderly often under-diagnosed, it requires urgent interventions both clinical and even juridical.
Zinetti
Jacqueline
J
Service de gérontopsychiatrie Hôpital Bretonneau 75885 Paris. Jacqueline.zinetti@brt.ap-hop-paris.fr
Daraux
Jacques
J
Ploskas
Fabienne
F
D000368:Aged; D000374:Aggression; D000375:Aging / Q000523:psychology*; D003704:Dementia / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000628:therapy*; D004637:Emergency Services, Psychiatric; D005852:Geriatric Psychiatry; D006801:Humans; D012307:Risk Factors; D000092864:Suicide Prevention