The diagnosis of senile melancholia was felt to convey the view that it was an age-related degenerative process inseparable from the early stages of senile dementia ( Willmuth, 1979). These reports suggest that melancholia was far from being an uncommon diagnosis in late life in the nineteenth century. Just over 16% of admissions aged 60 years and over to each of the Littlemore and Warneford Hospitals in Oxford during the nineteenth century were given a melancholia diagnosis ( Yorston and Haw, 2005), while 17.7% of admissions aged 60 years and over were given a melancholia diagnosis at Gladesville and Callan Park Hospitals in Sydney during a similar period ( Draper, 2021).
In fact, while the number of admissions was very low at the age of 55, at the age of 60 and over it was higher and represented 7.7% of the total at a time when the estimated proportion of people aged 60 years and over in France was about 8.5%, suggesting that admission rates were about what would be expected if based on the proportion of older people in the community ( Esquirol, 1845: 211 see also Dupâquier (1988) cited in Bourdieu and Kesztenbaum, 2007: 183). All subjects Allied Health Cardiology & Cardiovascular Medicine Dentistry Emergency Medicine & Critical Care Endocrinology & Metabolism Environmental Science General Medicine Geriatrics Infectious Diseases Medico-legal Neurology Nursing Nutrition Obstetrics & Gynecology Oncology Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine Otolaryngology Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care Pediatrics Pharmacology & Toxicology Psychiatry & Psychology Public Health Pulmonary & Respiratory Medicine Radiology Research Methods & Evaluation Rheumatology Surgery Tropical Medicine Veterinary Medicine Cell Biology Clinical Biochemistry Environmental Science Life Sciences Neuroscience Pharmacology & Toxicology Biomedical Engineering Engineering & Computing Environmental Engineering Materials Science Anthropology & Archaeology Communication & Media Studies Criminology & Criminal Justice Cultural Studies Economics & Development Education Environmental Studies Ethnic Studies Family Studies Gender Studies Geography Gerontology & Aging Group Studies History Information Science Interpersonal Violence Language & Linguistics Law Management & Organization Studies Marketing & Hospitality Music Peace Studies & Conflict Resolution Philosophy Politics & International Relations Psychoanalysis Psychology & Counseling Public Administration Regional Studies Religion Research Methods & Evaluation Science & Society Studies Social Work & Social Policy Sociology Special Education Urban Studies & Planning BROWSE JOURNALSĮsquirol tabulated the ages in five-year blocks of lypemania (the term Esquirol coined for melancholia) admissions to the Salpêtrière between 18, and claimed that the data supported his view that it was rare after the age of 55.
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