The effect of ethnicity and gender on first‐contact rates for schizophrenia‐like psychosis in Bangladeshi, Black and White elders in Tower Hamlets, London

Abstract

Bangladeshi elderly migrants do not have an increased rate of SLP compared to indigenous elders. The usual female preponderance of SLP is not apparent in this elderly migrant population. Old age psychiatry services in the UK should take into account the increasing needs of Bangladeshi elders with dementia.