Department of Psychiatry, Medical College, Thrissur - 680 596, Kerala, India.
Indian J Psychiatry. 2010 Jan;52(Suppl 1):S148-52. doi: 10.4103/0019-5545.69227.
All the articles published in the Indian Journal of Psychiatry (IJP) from 1958 to 2009 on aging, dementia and other mental health issues of late life were systematically reviewed. There were only a limited number of research articles on dementia in the IJP. Most of the Indian studies on dementia were published elsewhere. People above the age of 60 years constitute about 5% of patients seen in tertiary care settings. High prevalence of psychiatric morbidity was reported among community resident older people. Depression was the commonest mental health problem in late life. We need to develop community-based interventions for management of common conditions like depression in late life. The effectiveness of these interventions needs to be established. It is important to identify risk factors for depression and dementia in our population. We could then try and modify these factors to reduce the prevalence of these conditions.
对《印度精神病学杂志》（IJP）1958 年至 2009 年间发表的所有关于老龄化、痴呆和老年人心理健康问题的文章进行了系统回顾。IJP 上关于痴呆症的研究文章数量有限。大多数印度痴呆症研究发表在其他地方。在三级保健机构就诊的患者中，60 岁以上的人约占 5%。社区居住的老年人中报告有较高的精神疾病发病率。抑郁症是老年人中最常见的心理健康问题。我们需要为老年人中常见的疾病（如抑郁症）制定基于社区的干预措施。需要确定这些干预措施的有效性。确定我们人群中痴呆症和抑郁症的风险因素很重要。然后，我们可以尝试改变这些因素，以降低这些疾病的发生率。
