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personality
Stable pattern of experience & behavior.
Does not change appreciably# with age after maturation.
Changes in personality are generally a result in:
1) psychiatric illness, especially depression or dementia* in the elderly
2) non-psychiatric disease
* new onset of carelessness, lack of discretion, apathy suggests frontal lobe dementia
# exceptions may be
- obsessional personality which may become more apparent as an individual becomes more dependent
- neuroticism which declines with age [1]
Related
personality assessment
personality change
personality disorder
References
- Geriatrics Review Syllabus, American Geriatrics Society,
5th edition, 2002-2004
- Geriatric Review Syllabus, 8th edition (GRS8)
Durso SC and Sullivan GN (eds)
American Geriatrics Society, 2013
- Geriatric Review Syllabus, 11th edition (GRS11)
Harper GM, Lyons WL, Potter JF (eds)
American Geriatrics Society, 2022
- Roberts BW, Walton KE, Viechtbauer W.
Patterns of mean-level change in personality traits across
the life course: a meta-analysis of longitudinal studies.
Psychol Bull. 2006 Jan;132(1):1-25.
PMID: 16435954