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| Survival in the community of the very old depressed, discharged from medical inpatient care | | Author(s) | Kenneth Wilson, Patricia Mottram, Maryyum Hussain |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 22, no 10, October 2007 |
| Pages | pp 974-979 |
| Source | http://www.interscience.wiley.com |
| Keywords | Depression ; Evaluation ; Discharge [hospitals] ; Living in the community ; Longitudinal surveys ; Cross sectional surveys ; Cheshire ; Wirral. |
| Annotation | A high prevalence of depression is found in older people recently discharged home from acute medical care. The authors report a cross-sectional study of patients aged 75+ discharged from the Countess of Chester Hospital and Wirral Hospitals Trust serving Wirral and West Cheshire. 311 patients were entered into the prevalence study. 158 patients (54 depressed and 104 symptomatic) were entered into the prospective case controlled study and followed up for up to 2 years. Depression was defined by GMS/AGECAT criteria. demographic details, handicap, pain, forced expiratory volume and social network were measured as dependent variables in the prevalence study and included in the analysis of risk factors potentially associated with duration of survival in the community. A depression prevalence rate of 17.4% was found. Age, forced expiratory volume and handicap were associated with depression, but depression was the only baseline variable associated with reduced survival in the community as defined by mortality and re-admission. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-071113216 A |
| Classmark | ENR: 4C: LD:QKJ: K4: 3J: 3KB: 8CH: 84D |
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