What happens to anxiety disorders in later life?

Anxiety disorders decline in prevalence with advancing age but remain more common than depressive disorders. They are often of late-onset and there is frequent comorbidity with depressive disorders and physical illness. While anxiety disorders in older people are likely to respond to the same non-ph...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gerard JA Byrne
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Psiquiatria (ABP) 2002-04-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-44462002000500014&lng=en&tlng=en