title: [Epidemiological characteristic of non-psychotic mental disorders in elderly persons in Arkhangelsk region].
abstract: The epidemiological characteristic of non-psychotic mental disorders (NMD) in elderly persons in the Arkhangelsk region in 1999-2010 has been studied. The results of the study show that the NMD prevalence among the elderly persons in the Arkhangelsk region was 07-1.1%; in the morbidity dynamics, there has been registered an increase in the number of the NMD cases among the elderly persons with the increase peak in 2007 and the tendency of development beginning from 2009. In NMD structure the organic nonpsychotic disorders and neurotic and somatoform disorders predominated. Since 2010, a tendency of a decrease in the share of organic non-psychotic disorders (up to 58.5%), an increase in the share of neurotic and somatoform disorders (up to 32.2%) and personality disorders (up to 4.2%) are observed. An analysis of specificity of psychotherapy delivery has been done, a necessity of registration of the NMD prevalence and structure, the comorbide pathology, the age and social-economic characteristics of the elderly persons has been grounded.
authors.forename: V V
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: Mestechko
authors.forename: A G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Solov'ev
authors.forename: I A
authors.initials: IA
authors.lastname: Novikova
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000375:Aging / Q000523:psychology*; D006299:Health Services for the Aged; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D008605:Mental Health Services; D008875:Middle Aged; D012426:Russia / Q000453:epidemiology; D014507:Urbanization