Year: 1993
Type: article
Abstract: Until recently, most of the research on schizophrenia has focused on young adults. With increasing longevity, the number of older schizophrenia patients in the population is expected to grow. Late-life schizophrenia patients fall into two groups: those who developed schizophrenia for the first time in later adulthood (late-onset schizophrenia) and those who developed the illness earlier in life and are presently middle-aged or elderly. There is a scarcity of published studies on late-life schizophrenia. The available data tend to challenge the commonly held view of schizophrenia as a disorder with onset restricted to the first half of life and a progressively deteriorating course. Further work on this important but long-neglected patient population is urgently needed for clinical as well as research purposes.
Source: Schizophrenia Bulletin
Author: D. V. Jeste
Language: English
Subfield: Psychiatry and Mental health
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2161025169