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Toward a Developmentally Informed Theory of Mental Disorder in Older Adults

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Handbook of Aging and Mental Health

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This chapter represents an exercise in theory building, setting out propositions that are essential for a model of mental disorder in older adults. The intent is to provide a framework that will be useful to research and practice through implications for etiology, course, treatment, and prevention.

A theory is an attempt to explain.... Explicit theory-building is crucial to research, and especially to intervention. Bengtson (1995)

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Gatz, M. (1998). Toward a Developmentally Informed Theory of Mental Disorder in Older Adults. In: Lomranz, J. (eds) Handbook of Aging and Mental Health. The Springer Series in Adult Development and Aging. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0098-2_5

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