Personality disorders in the elderly: a flagging field of inquiry

Abrams, Robert C.; Bromberg, Chaim E.

doi:10.1002/gps.1614

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“…The high rate of comorbid PD in our group of psychiatric inpatients generally confirms our first hypothesis and previous reports (Ames and Molinari, 1994;Kunik et al, 1994;Abrams and Bromberg, 2006). We also confirmed hypothesis 2 and previous studies that rates of comorbid PD were lower in older inpatients (60%) than in middle-age and younger inpatients (combined rate 72.9%) (Dahl, 1986;Molinari and Marmion, 1995;Coolidge et al, 2000;Fossati et al, 2000).…”

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The effect of age on prevalence, type and diagnosis of personality disorder in psychiatric inpatients

Stevenson

Datyner

Boyce

et al. 2010

Int J Geriat Psychiatry

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The effect of age on prevalence, type and diagnosis of personality disorder in psychiatric inpatients

Stevenson

Datyner

Boyce

et al. 2010

Int J Geriat Psychiatry

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“…They confirm a reduced likelihood of PD as age increases (Abrams & Bromberg, 2006;Jackson & Burgess, 2000), especially in cluster B (Torgersen, Kringlen, & Cramer, 2001). Importantly, rates of impulsivity and deliberate self-harm in borderline subjects, as well as dissocial acting-out in psychopaths, have been reported to fall at older ages (Huchzermeyer et al, 2008;Stepp & Pilkonis, 2008).…”

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Personality Disorder Features Through the Life Course

Gutiérrez¹,

Vall²,

Peri³

et al. 2012

Journal of Personality Disorders

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Personality Disorders have proved to be more fluid through the life course than previously thought. However, because analyses have usually been undertaken at the level of diagnostic categories, relevant findings may be obscured. An examination at the criteria level could bypass arbitrary aggregations of heterogeneous traits and thus offer more accurate information. To this end, we administered the Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire-4+ (PDQ-4+) to 1,477 patients aged 15 to 82. Nine of 12 disorders declined to some extent over the lifespan, but the evolution of individual criteria diverged within categories. At this level, 45 of 93 criteria showed age-related decreases, whereas only seven presented increases. A clearer picture is offered of the PD traits that change and those that remain stable. Thus, pathological features are not only more fluid, but developmentally more heterogeneous than previously believed.

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“…In addition, there is a paucity of both longitudinal and cross-sectional research on maladaptive personality traits, the so-called personality disorders, up to old age (Abrams & Bromberg, 2006). In the fourth edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) a personality disorder is defined as an enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations of the individual's culture, is pervasive and inflexible, has an onset in adolescence or early adulthood, is stable over time, and leads to distress or impairment (American Psychiatric Association, 2000).…”

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