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The potential for pharmacological treatment of unpleasant psychological symptoms to increase personal fulfillment in old age

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Bruce Charlton

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Abstract

As some people get older, they experience a decline in their subjective sense of fulfillment. Life may become less rewarding, happiness diminished in intensity. This is usually regarded as an inevitable consequence of the ageing process: regrettable, but a circumstance to which stoical endurance is the only constructive response. This situation is potentially avoidable, for some individuals at least; not at some indefinite point in the future, but now. By using existing and available drugs in a novel fashion to treat the unpleasant psychological symptoms associated with ageing, a substantial improvement in the quality of life may be obtained.

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Author(s): Charlton BG

Publication type: Note

Publication status: Published

Journal: QJM - Monthly Journal of the Association of Physicians

Year: 2001

Volume: 94

Issue: 6

Pages: 333-336

Print publication date: 01/01/2001

ISSN (print): 1460-2725

ISSN (electronic): 1460-2393

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/qjmed/94.6.333

DOI: 10.1093/qjmed/94.6.333

PubMed id: 11391032

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