“So important not to just diagnose ‘old age’”: professor wants to get rid of bad clichés

by time news

That grandma has slowed down a bit and that grandpa has forgotten what he ate this afternoon. That’s not just ‘getting older’. One in ten elderly people suffers from a psychiatric disorder and all too often such a disorder is not diagnosed or is misdiagnosed. Of ‘Wrinkles in the head of the elderly’ wants elderly psychiatrist Mathieu Vandenbulcke (50) to get rid of those nasty clichés. “A weaker mind is not automatically linked to aging.”

Arthur De Meyer

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