Why is depression in older adults hard to recognize? It can be hard to tell the difference between depression and illnesses such as dementia. Also, older adults may not talk to their doctor about their sad or anxious feelings because they are embarrassed. But depression is nothing to be ...
The statistics on suicide among people older than age 60 are frightening. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that in 2011, more than 9,000 older adults died by suicide. Depression and economic insecurity are major risk factors for suicide in elders, and depression remains a...
and its prevalence rises with increasing age. In addition, 10% to 15% of older adults have clinically significant depressive symptoms, even in the absence of major depression.
depression;anxiety;Chinese migrant older adults;network analysis;COVID-19 3.2. Network Structure 3.2.1. Stage of Symptoms Before the COVID-19 pandemic (T1), out of 120 possible edges, 69 edges were nonzero (64.17%), and all edges were positively correlated. The predictability of each symptom...
Older adults have both worse general cognition and worse social cognition. A frequent suggestion is that worse social cognition is due to worse general cognition. However, previous studies have often provided contradictory evidence. The current study exa
To address the care needs of older adults, it is important to identify and understand the forms of care support older adults received. This systematic review aims to examine the social networks of older adults receiving informal or formal care and the fa
In the past decade, the number of long-term care (LTC) services for older adults in China has grown annually by an average of 10%. Older adults, their family members, and policymakers in China are concerned about patient outcomes in different care settin
BMC Public Health (2023) 23:1870 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-16730-4 BMC Public Health RESEARCH Open Access Living arrangements and depression of the older adults– evidence from the Chinese longitudinal healthy longevity survey Qingwen Jia1, Yanhan Duan2, Rui Gong3, ...
Overweight older adults are often counseled to lose weight, even though there is little evidence of excess mortality in that age group. Overweight and underweight may be more associated with health status than with mortality, but few clinical trials of any kind have been based on maximizing years...
Longevity, defined as the length of life, is a concept often associated with living to 90 or 100 years and is a goal deeply rooted in human aspirations across cultures and eras [1, 2]. In Chinese society, a common wish for the older adults is to ‘live to be a hundred.’ However,...