The development of old age psychiatry in the Czech Republic

Vojtechovsky, M

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“…He was 52 years old with an impressive professional CV, and a painful personal record (Lauter, 1991;Merskey, 1989;Vojtechovsky, 1995 (Reichensfeld and Agbayewa, 2001), and of psychogeriatric research (second to Arnold Pick) in the Czech Republic (Vojtechovsky, 1995).…”

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“…Kral was hired as a neuropsychiatric consultant to the Home in 1955. He was 52 years old with an impressive professional CV, and a painful personal record (Lauter, 1991;Merskey, 1989;Vojtechovsky, 1995). Born on 5 February 1903 to a Jewish reform family in what was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and is now the Czech Republic, he studied at the German Gymnasium in Prague, and later received his medical education in the German-speaking Charles University in Prague where he graduated MD in 1927.…”

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“…He died on 7 June 1988 during a visit to relatives in Israel, and is buried there. Today, Kral is considered one of the founders of geriatric psychiatry in Canada (Reichensfeld and Agbayewa, 2001), and of psychogeriatric research (second to Arnold Pick) in the Czech Republic (Vojtechovsky, 1995).…”

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V. A. Kral, the Montreal Hebrew Old People's Home, and benign senescent forgetfulness

Heinik

2006

Hist Psychiatry

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The term Benign Senescent Forgetfulness, introduced in 1958 by V. A. Kral, constitutes the origin of the concept of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), a widely studied but controversial entity. The ambiguities surrounding MCI warrant a re-assessment of its historical origin. Any attempt at an in-depth investigation of Kral's works on that subject should begin with a description of the patient population and professional arena in the Montreal Hebrew Old People's and Sheltering Home, where Kral was a consultant. Based on archival and published sources, I describe the Home's facilities, population, staff and programmes/services, followed by an overview of the dynamic factors inducing a re-examination of its mode of operation in the mid-1950s when Kral joined the Home's professional staff as a consultant.

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Section: A Kral Joins the Professional Staff Of The Home As A Conmentioning

confidence: 99%