Psychosis Occurring in the Senium a Review of an Industrial Population

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Abstract
One hundred consecutive admissions to 2 mental hospitals serving mainly industrial Tyneside were examined mentally and physically. Of these 45 had affective psychosis, 14 arteriosclerotic psychosis, 9 paraphrenia, 11 senile psychosis, 11 delirium and 10 miscellaneous conditions. There was no loading of Social Classes 1 and 2 to increase the proportion of affective cases. The affective cases, particularly those who developed their 1st attack after the age of 60, showed a high incidence of coronary artery disease, and the cases of paraphrenia a high incidence of sensory deprivation. Follow-up a year after admission showed the outcome of the different diagnostic categories to be similar to that previously described.