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Aging of the world population risks to be accompanied by an increase of chronic health problems, and most particularly of mental health problems. To face these problems the organization of care and education in old age psychiatry is still quite low. If at international level the body of knowledge and skills of the psychiatry of the elderly is today enough recognized it is very difficult to convince authorities at national and local level to recognize this discipline as a sub-specialty of psychiatry. Even when some resources exist at local level to support old people with mental disorders, very often these old persons do not look for care as consequence of the prevailing double stigma attached to mental disorders in general and to the end of life in particular. In order to promote changes of this situation, the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre of Lausanne realized a WHO-World Psychiatric Association (WPA) consensus meeting and statement on how to reduce the stigma and the discrimination against old persons with mental disorders, as well it has realized a survey in Europe on this specific subject of stigma and discrimination against these old persons. As education

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Author

C.A. DE MENDONÇA LIMA

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0167-4943)

Published

2004

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)