Cognitive Functioning of Ageing Patients with Severe Mental Illness: a Pilot Study.

Abstract

There are concerns about adequacy of care for older people with severe mental illness in terms of health and social care aspects. An increasing number of patients with severe mental illness are expected to survive into old age. They are likely to develop neurodegenerative disorders such as dementia in addition to psychiatric morbidities. Up to 60% of such patients have clinically relevant cognitive impairment.