Symptoms of dementia in older adults reflect changes in how their brain works — they may struggle to use a telephone or a television remote control they had mastered long ago. “It really comes down to having evidence of cognitive decline from a previous level of ability,” said Rachel N....
Depressive Symptoms Among Older AdultsFonda, Stephanie JWallace, Robert BHerzog, A Regula
Paranoid symptoms among older adults are of considerable importance as they are linked not only to personal distress but also to caregiver burden. Ideas of persecution and the experience of living in an unfriendly social environment lead to heightened stress, caution, anxiety, and agitation among old...
etc. These are all qualities that are more pronounced in youth and decrease in old age. At the same time, fewer children are being born in the Western world, and people live longer. This leads to a growing proportion of older people in society, who lived long lives and who are likely ...
This study applies life-course theories of latent (direct), pathway (indirect) and conditional effects in an analysis of childhood poverty on later-life depressive symptoms among older adults in Mexico. Data are from the 2001 Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS), a nationally representative samp...
We found that 4.46% of the elderly had depression and 35.19% had depressive symptoms, and sex (B [95%CI]: 1.355 [1.057,1.654], Discussion Age-related cognitive impairment affects daily and social functioning in older adults; this is especially important today when China's aging population is...
This descriptive study is a secondary analysis of data that examined depressive symptoms in a random sample of 429 community-dwelling adults aged 65 years and older. Participants were classified as having consistently high (n = 20), consistently low (n = 327), or fluctuating (n = 82) levels...
To extend the empirical evidence regarding the predictors of older adults' use of information and communications technology (ICT) and to further examine its relationship to depressive symptoms and well-being.This cross-sectional study utilized a sample of community-dwelling older adults from the Nationa...
J. (2007) Comparison of Depressive Symptoms between homebound older adults and ambulatory older adults. In Aging and Mental Health 11:310- 322.Choi, N., & McDougall, G. (2007). Comparison of depressive symptoms between homebound older adults and ambulatory older adults. Aging Mental Health,...
Dimensions of depressive symptoms and cingulate volumes in older adults ME McLaren1, SM Szymkowicz1, A O'Shea2,3, AJ Woods2,3,4, SD Anton2 and VM Dotson1,3,4 Clinical depression and subthreshold depressive symptoms in older adults have been linked to structural changes in the cingulate ...