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Late-Life Psychosis

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The more notable ones are delusional disorder, schizophrenia and psychosis in patients with dementia or depression. This article will focus on delusional disorder and late-onset schizophrenia. Paranoid states and schizophrenia could occur for the first time in late life, and the two conditions have been combined as late-onset schizophrenia and paranoid states.

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Nagaratnam, N., Nagaratnam, K., Cheuk, G. (2018). Late-Life Psychosis. In: Geriatric Diseases. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33434-9_76

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