personality
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Introduction
Stable pattern of experience & behavior.
Does not change appreciably# with age after maturation.
Changes in personality are generally a result in:
- psychiatric illness, especially depression or dementia* in the elderly
- non-psychiatric disease
* new onset of carelessness, lack of discretion, apathy suggests frontal dementia
# an exception may be obsessional personality which may become more apparent as an individual becomes more dependent
Additional terms
References
- ↑ Geriatrics Review Syllabus, American Geriatrics Society, 5th edition, 2002-2004
Geriatric Review Syllabus, 8th edition (GRS8) Durso SC and Sullivan GN (eds) American Geriatrics Society, 2013 - ↑ Roberts BW, Walton KE, Viechtbauer W. Patterns of mean-level change in personality traits across the life course: a meta-analysis of longitudinal studies. Psychol Bull. 2006 Jan;132(1):1-25. PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16435954