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As a founding president of the Korean Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, I would like to look back on not only the quickening period of the association that was thirteen years...
Thoughts and concepts on successful aging were reviewed from psychological, biomedical and multi-dimensional points of view. Longevity, mental health, preservation of cognitive function, physical health and life satisfaction seem to...
Relatively little attention has been devoted to the study of anxiety disorders in late-life. However, there has been accumulating evidences that anxiety disorders in elderly were clinically important in terms...
OBJECTIVES: This study was to evaluate the cognitive and noncognitive effects of Psychodrama on elderly dementia patients.
METHODS: The psychodrama treatment group was composed of 16 elderly dementia patients and...
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to look into caregivers who took care of their demented elderly family members in an effort to find out what types of services...
OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to analyze factors affecting quality of life (QOL) among Korean dementia patients.
METHODS: The subjects were consisted with 54 patients with dementia of the...
Bipolar disorder in old age is a growing public health problem. We reviewed the epidemiology, clinical characteristics, course, cormobidity, and treatment of bipolar disorder in old age with special focus...
Alcohol and substance related disorder in the elderly should be understood considering the physical, psychological and social characteristics of senile patients. In the elderly, alcohol, prescription drugs and over the...