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Older persons in climate change-induced hazards and building forward better: International Psychogeriatric Association, World Psychiatric Association-Section of Old Age Psychiatry, and NGO Committee on Ageing in Geneva position statement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2023

Liat Ayalon Open the ORCID record for Liat Ayalon [Opens in a new window] ,
Carlos Augusto de Mendonça Lima Open the ORCID record for Carlos Augusto de Mendonça Lima [Opens in a new window] ,
Debanjan Banerjee Open the ORCID record for Debanjan Banerjee [Opens in a new window] ,
Kiran Rabheru  and
Kelly G. Fitzgerald
Liat Ayalon*
Affiliation:
Louis and Gabi Weisfeld School of Social Sciences, Bar–Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
Carlos Augusto de Mendonça Lima
Affiliation:
World Psychiatric Association Section of Old Age Psychiatry, Centre Médical du Jorat, Mézières, Switzerland
Debanjan Banerjee
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Apollo Gleneagles Multispecialty Hospitals, Kolkata, India
Kiran Rabheru
Affiliation:
Professor of Psychiatry, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
Kelly G. Fitzgerald
Affiliation:
Chair of the NGO Committtee on Ageing in Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
*
Email: liat.ayalon@biu.ac.il
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International Psychogeriatrics , Volume 35 , Special Issue 11: Issue Theme: Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Mild and Major Neurocognitive Disorders , November 2023 , pp. 589 - 591
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