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Depressive symptoms in late life
— associations with apathy, resilience and disability vary between young-old and old-old | | Author(s) | Mona Mehta, Ellen Whyte, Eric Lenze |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 23, no 3, March 2008 |
| Pages | pp 238-243 |
| Source | http://www.interscience.wiley.com |
| Keywords | Depression ; Symptoms ; Apathy ; Adjustment ; Physical disabilities ; Octogenarians ; Age groups [elderly] ; Correlation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The effect of age on the association between disability and apathy with depression when we refer to their occurrence in "late life" is ambiguous. The authors investigated the association of depression with apathy, resilience and disability across the age range of late life. 105 community-dwelling older people with moderate levels of disability were assessed using the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS), Harley-Gill Resilience Scale, Starkstein Apathy Scale and instrumental activities of daily living / activities of daily living (IADL/ADL). Multiple regression analysis was used to assess relationships between depression, apathy, resilience and disability, stratified by age (under age 80 vs 80+). In the under 80s, apathy, resilience and disability scores equally contributed to the variability of the GDS score. In contrast, in the 80+ group, apathy had the greatest contribution to GDS score. These data suggest that depressive symptoms in older people have different clinical features along the age spectrum from young-old to old-old. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080411210 A |
| Classmark | ENR: CT: EPA: DR: BN: BBM: BB: 49: 7T |
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