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Can depression and depressive symptoms predict mortality at 18-month follow-up in acutely medically ill inpatients over the age of 80 years?
Author(s)Ajit Shah
Journal titleInternational Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 13, no 4, April 1998
Pagespp 240-243
KeywordsDepression ; Acute illness ; In-patients ; Octogenarians ; Terminal illness ; Measurement ; Longitudinal surveys ; Hounslow.
AnnotationThe prevalence of depression in acutely medically ill older inpatients is high, and is also associated with increased mortality. The association between mortality at 18 month follow-up and depression, depressive symptoms and demographic variables at the outset in a group of such inpatients at West Middlesex University Hospital was examined. Mortality at 18-month follow-up was 47%, suggesting no particular association with depression. An explanation of this absence of association between mortality and depression may be because the findings relate to only one geriatric medical unit, and based on comparatively small numbers. (RH).
Accession NumberCPA-980508004 A
ClassmarkENR: CHA: LF7: BBM: CV: 3R: 3J: 82LJ

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