英语词汇“psychogeriatric”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

psychogeriatric

释义

ˌpsychogeriˈatric, a. and n.
Also with hyphen.
[f. psycho- + geriatric a.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to mental illness or disturbance in the old. Of a person: old and mentally ill or disturbed.
1961Guardian 19 June 8/4 The number of psycho⁓geriatric patients is certainly rising with increased longevity.1965Lancet 18 Sept. 583/2 A psycho-geriatric unit was established at Severalls Hospital in 1961.1971Brit. Med. Jrnl. 23 Oct. 235/1 Among psychogeriatric patients those most likely to respond appear to be those whose initial degree of memory and intellectual impairment was not of an extreme degree.1973Radio Times 1 Feb. 41/1 A 69-year-old widow, who lives with her unmarried son and regularly attends a local authority psychogeriatric Day Centre.1975Daily Tel. 1 Dec. 13/1 There was an acute shortage of psychogeriatric beds in hospitals.1977Lancet 1 Jan. 27/1 Many doctors and social workers cannot formulate a ‘psychogeriatric’ problem in any other terms but as the need to get it instantly off their hands.
B. n. An old person who is mentally ill or disturbed.
1971Observer 12 Dec. 8/4 The psycho-geriatrics form only one category of the..mentally ill.1973Listener 19 Apr. 507/1 They're all referred by the GP... They're all psychogeriatrics.
Hence ˌpsychogeriˈatrics, the branch of medicine concerned with mental illness and disturbance in old people.
1967Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry CXIII. 175/1 The sub⁓speciality of geriatric psychiatry is coming to be known as ‘psycho-geriatrics’, an abbreviation which is not a very happy one, but which seems to be becoming generally accepted.1972Lancet 8 July 73/2 The working party are not convinced..that there is any need for the recognition of a specialty of psychogeriatrics.

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