[The heart anxiety syndrome in older patients].

Elderly patients suffer of cardiac neurosis in a much higher percentage than is generally assumed. This is the result of a study performed in an outpatient psychogeriatric clinic. The syndrome is described with special regard to changes due to advancing age. Some diagnostic and therapeutic consequences are shown. The question whether this psychogeriatric investigation may also help to clarify age-independent problems of cardiac neurosis is discussed in a broader psychiatric perspective.