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Editorial
. 2011 Nov 10:343:d6808.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.d6808.

Promoting successful ageing through integrated care

Dilip V Jeste
Editorial

Promoting successful ageing through integrated care

Dilip V Jeste. BMJ. .

Abstract

The most important step is to improve society’s attitudes towards older people

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: The author has completed the ICMJE uniform disclosure form at www.icmje.org/coi_disclosure.pdf (available on request from the corresponding author) and declares: this work was supported, in part, by the National Institute of Mental Health grant MH080002, the John A Hartford Foundation, and the Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging, University of California, USA; no financial relationships with any organisations that might have an interest in the submitted work in the previous three years; AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, and Janssen donated drugs to our NIMH funded research grant, “metabolic effects of newer antipsychotics in older patients,” which ended May 2011, and which was unrelated to the submitted work.

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