Are Mobile Apps in Geriatric Mental Health Worth the Effort?

Affiliations

¹ McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Electronic address: ivahia@partners.org.
² McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA.
³ McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador.

Editorial

Ipsit V Vahia et al. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2022 May.

. 2022 May;30(5):585-587.

doi: 10.1016/j.jagp.2021.12.018. Epub 2022 Jan 2.

¹ McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Electronic address: ivahia@partners.org.
² McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA.
³ McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador.

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