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Planning services for the elderly

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Greg Spencer  and
David Jolley
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“The psychiatric aspects of ageing are a major problem in any country which, like our own, has a low net reproduction rate and a high standard of social responsibility. The proportion of old people in the community steadily increases so that they provide an increasingly high proportion of our mentally infirm who must be cared for”.

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Advances in Psychiatric Treatment , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , May 1999 , pp. 202 - 212
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 1999 

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