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Comorbidity with depression in older people — the Islington study
Author(s)	C L E Katona, M V Manela, G A Livingston
Journal title	Aging & Mental Health, vol 1, no 1, February 1997
Pages	pp 57-61
Source	http://www.tandfonline.com
Keywords	Depression ; Mental disorder ; Cognitive impairment ; Sleep disorders ; Anxiety ; Physical disabilities ; Therapeutics ; Clinical surveys ; Islington.
Annotation	This study focuses on comorbidity and other associations of depression in a community sample of older adults in the London Borough of Islington. Older people who were depressed were likely to have other comorbid physical and psychiatric pathology: anxiety, phobic anxiety, physical disability, somatic symptoms, sleep disturbance, and subjective memory impairment. The majority of older people with depression were not receiving pharmacological treatment, perhaps because their presenting symptoms obscured diagnosis of depression. Health workers treating older people with depression should look for other physical and psychiatric conditions routinely. Comorbid depression should be considered in older people with subjective memory loss, sleep disturbance, somatic complaints, anxiety disorders or other activities of daily living (ADL) limitation.
Accession Number	CPA-970221012 A
Classmark	ENR: E: E4: CTS: ENP: BN: LL: 3G: 82LK
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