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A large number of older adults expressed concerns about falling and we also found several factors to be associated with developing FOF, supporting the need for screening. Thus, further research is needed in order to understand the relationship between severity of FOF and actual fall events for dev...
The objective of this study was to research grief and depression in oldest-old people living in urban congregate housing by examining the various types of grief that they experience by using a stress process model for depression among the oldest old. This study used a convenience sample of the...
To identify older adults at risk for depression, Irwin said, a two-step strategy can be employed. One step involves assessment of whether individuals have had a prior episode of depression, the other whether they have current and ongoing sleep disturbance. "Given that sleep disturbance is a mod...
Dennison1 Abstract Background: Falls are a major cause of disability and death in older people, particularly women. Cross-sectional surveys suggest that some risk factors associated with a history of falls may be sex-specific, but whether risk factors for incident falls differ between the sexes ...
Older age and being single remained to be risk factors for MCI among older adults with multimorbidity. There may be a high incidence of MCI among Chinese older adults with multimorbidity in primary care in Hong Kong. Future larger studies need to confirm the prevalence and incidence of MCI ...
Context.—Multiple factors contribute to mortality in older adults, but the extent to which subclinical disease and other factors contribute independently
A number of studies have shown a range of negative psychological symptoms (e.g. depression) after exposure to natural disasters. The aim of this study was to determine risk factors for depression in both children and adults who have survived natural disa
Carmasin JS, Mast BT, Allaire JC, Whitfield KE. Vascular risk factors, depression, and cognitive change among African American older adults. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2013Carmasin, J. S., Mast, B. T., Allaire, J. C., & Whitfield, K. E. (2014). Vascular risk factors, depression, ...
But what do we know about factors that increase the risk for suicide in older adults? Most previous research has examined patients presenting to emergency departments. But for this newly reported study, investigators used the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink, an anonymized databank, to create...