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Treatment of depression in older people in care homes
Author(s)	Stephen Curran, Salman Shafiq
Journal title	Journal of Care Services Management, vol 1, no 2, January/March 2007
Pages	pp 155-165
Source	http://www.henrystewart.com
Keywords	Depression ; Drugs ; Residents [care homes] ; Care homes.
Annotation	The treatment of older people with mental illnesses invariably needs an integrated approach, with the pharmacological, social and psychological aspects working together, but this review primarily focuses on pharmacological treatments. In general the pharmacological evidence base is much better for younger patients: many clinical trials exclude older people, making it difficult to extrapolate the findings to older people with mental illness. Older people may be excluded because it is harder to control for confounding variables such as concurrent diseases and the medications need to treat them. This must always be borne in mind when interpreting data from studies involving younger people. There is a need for more research into the use of psychotropic drugs in this vulnerable group of older people. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-070201207 A
Classmark	ENR: LLD: KX: KW
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