Citation

Burns A. Br. J. Psychiatry 2002; 180(3): 282-283.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2002, Royal College of Psychiatry)

DOI

10.1192/bjp.180.3.282

PMID

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Abstract

It was a pleasure to be asked to write about current reading in old age psychiatry. As a discipline, old age psychiatry is gaining strength in terms of the number of young psychiatrists interested in the field and of the many new treatments for the dementias in general and Alzheimer's disease in particular. There has been an explosion in reading in old age psychiatry. The fascination of our subject is that it covers a range of approaches from psychosocial to basic neuroscience.

It is a truism that job references tell you more about the person writing them than the person about whom they are written. Similarly, anecdotal contributions such as this will say more about my own gaps in knowledge. Redress is available by writing outraged letters to the correspondence section of the Journal.

Language: en