[Outpatient psychiatric activity in the elderly].

Outpatient psychiatry and its health action for the elderly has taken a certain boom in the 2010s. The health policies wanted undoubtedly to mitigate the will to close hospital beds, and to limit hospitalizations in a good way. Ambulatory teams and governments have often provided the means in terms of personnel and logistics to meet the demands in urban and rural areas.

[Relationship between two models of personality in old individuals].

The relationships between the seven dimensions of the Cloninger psychobiological model and the five factors of the Costa and McCrae model were examined in 54 elderly subjects from the French general population. The dimensions of temperament (novelty seeking, harm avoidance, reward dependence) and character (determination, cooperation, transcendence) from the Cloninger's model were measured by the temperament and character inventory whereas the five factors of Costa and McCrae model (neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness and conscientiousness) were evaluated using the NEO PI-R. Multiple regression analyses show that some dimensions of the temperament and character inventory predict some dimensions of the Big five and vice versa.

[Personality disorders and aging].

Personality disorder can be defined as an enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that markedly deviates from the expectations of the individual's culture. With aging, personality disorders may improve or worsen. Their prevalence in the elderly is slightly lower than the prevalence in young adult.