Introduction:

The elderly assisted in the urgency service in the Psychiatric Hospital Luis Ramirez Lopez has not been characterized.

Objective:

To characterize the elderly patients with a psychiatric urgency assisted in the urgency service of the already mentioned institution during the year 2019.

Method:

A descriptive, retrospective, cross-sectional study was carried out. The following variables were studied in the total of assisted patients (N=1427): sex, age, area of origin, diagnosis and steps to follow with the patient.

Results:

64.4% of the patients were women and the 35.6% men, with an average age between 60 and 69 years (57.9%) and who came from the south area of the municipality of Guantánamo (30.3%). The most common diagnoses were affective dysfunctions (32.7%), mostly with ambulatory treatment (81.4%).

Conclusions:

It is considerably high the demand on psychiatric attention in urgency service for elderly patients, mainly because of affective dysfunctions that require ambulatory attention.

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