Abstract

All the articles published in the Indian Journal of Psychiatry( IJP) from 1958 to 2009 on aging, dementia and other internal health issues of late life were totally reviewed. There were only a limited number of exploration papers on madness in the IJP. Most of the Indian studies on madness were published away. People above the age of 60 times constitute about 5 of cases seen in tertiary care settings. High frequence of psychiatric morbidity was reported among community resident aged people. Depression was the commonest internal health problem in late life. We need to develop community- grounded interventions for operation of common conditions like depression in late life. The effectiveness of these interventions needs to be established. It’s important to identify threat factors for depression and dementia in our population. We could also try and modify these factors to reduce the frequence of these conditions.

Keywords: Aging; Internal health; Dementia; Late onset depression