ผู้วิจัย/Authors: Nahathai Wongpakaran

ชื่อเรื่อง/Title: Geriatric Psychiatry in Thailand.

แหล่งที่มา/Source: วารสารสมาคมจิตแพทย์แห่งประเทศไทย, ปีที่ 53, ฉบับผนวก 1 สิงหาคม 2551, หน้า 40S.

รายละเอียด / Details:

The number of the population of the elderly in Thailand has been on the rise recently. According to the Human Resources Planning Division of the National Economic and social development Board, in 2010 the elderly population of 60 years old and up will be as many as 7.6 million or 11.4 percent of the total number of the population, an increase from 4.8 million or 8.1 percent in 1995, and the tendency to rise will continue. Therefore, it is advisable that all the relevant units be prepared to cope with the situation earlier and continually. This includes those who work in the psychiatric field to be prepared to develop the work involving geriatric psychiatry in order to ensure that they will be mentally healthy enough in their way of living. This article, therefore, aims to provide the data obtained from various relevant units dealing with mental health for the elderly in Thailand, namely data from research reports concerning psychiatric problems commonly detected in several areas during the past three decades such as depression and dementia, data on mental health related services for the elderly, personnel working with the target group as well as the establishment of professional organizations concerning geriatric psychiatry and a great need of geriatric psychiatry educational systems and training in different institutes.

Keywords: geriatric, psychiatry, thailand

ปีที่เผยแพร่/Year: 2008

Address: Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Mueng, Chiang Mai

Code: 2010000286

ISSN/ISBN: 0125-6985

Country of publication: Thailand

Language: English

Category: Abstract

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