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Is it time to do away with disorders in the very old?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2019

Mario Fahed  and
David C. Steffens
Mario Fahed*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT, USA
David C. Steffens
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT, USA
*
Email: Fahed@uchc.edu
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International Psychogeriatrics , Volume 31 , Issue 11: Issue Theme: Psychiatric Morbidity in Exceptionally Old People , November 2019 , pp. 1535 - 1537
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© International Psychogeriatric Association 2019 

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