NDLI: An overview of depression in the elderly: a US perspective.

Content Provider	PubMed Central
Author	Baker, F. M.
Abstract	This article is organized in seven sections. The first section presents a review of the existing epidemiologic data on the prevalence of depressive illness in different, elderly US populations (community residents versus the medically ill). Section two describes the US elderly population. Section three describes three presentations of depression in the elderly. Section four addresses the outcome of depressive disorder untreated or partially treated. In section five the data on suicide in the elderly is reviewed. An overview of specific considerations for the psychopharmacologic and psychotherapeutic treatment of depression is presented in section six. Section seven provides a summary of the major points of the article.
Starting Page	178
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00279684
Journal	Journal of the National Medical Association
Issue Number	3
Volume Number	88
Language	English
Publisher	National Medical Association
Publisher Date	1996-03-01
Access Restriction	Open
Rights Holder	National Medical Association
Subject Keyword	Research in Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Medicine

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An overview of depression in the elderly: a US perspective.