The most significant relationship to depression was that of loneliness, with lonelier men reporting higher scores on the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS). Although research suggests that depression is often a response to declining health and functional impairment in the older adult, the present ...
Depression also raises the risk of suicide, especially in older white men. The suicide rate in people ages 80 to 84 is more than twice that of the general population. The National Institute ofMental Healthconsiders depression in people 65 and older to be a major public health problem. ...
Depression is also associated with increased mortality mainly associated with frailty among older men4. In a systematic review of the relationship between depression and frailty, depressed older adults were more likely to experience frailty than those without depression, specifically men4,5. Depression ...
Our objective was to estimate the prevalence of depression among older people in an urban Greek population and to investigate the covariates of depression symptoms prevalence by gender. The sample consisted of 360 individuals, 218 women and 142 men, aged 60years or older, members of four open ...
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DEPRESSION AND SELF-FOCUSED LANGUAGE IN STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS WITH OLDER MEN.doi:10.2466/02.09.21.28.PR0.109.5.686-700The association between depression and self-focused language has been found to varying extents across studies. the presence or absence of the association may depend on the communicative...
Introduction: Negative consequences of social homonegativity and HIV status among older gay and bisexual men in Portugal are still to be documented. Objectives: This study seeks to evaluate depression and anxiety disparitiesamong older gay and bisexual men, based upon theirHIVsta...
The Management of Depression in Older Nursing Home Residents OBJECTIVES: Depression remains underrecognized and undertreated in older people. We estimated the prevalence of depression in older nursing home (NH) resid... MN Brown,KL Lapane,AF Luisi - 《Journal of the American Geriatrics Society》 ...
Relative deprivation and incident functional disability among older Japanese women and men: prospective cohort study Methods: Study subjects consist of 9463 non-disabled people aged 65+ years in the Aichi Gerontological Evaluation Study (AGES), Aichi prefecture, Japan. ......
These data show that depressive illness defined as suitable for intervention is common among older people in Europe. Opportunities for effective treatment are almost certainly being lost. Levels of depressive symptoms vary significantly between high and low scoring centres, prompting the next phase of ...