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Depression — management in residential care
Author(s)	Anthony Mann
Journal title	Geriatric Medicine, vol 28, no 12, December 1998
Pages	pp 35-36, 39
Keywords	Depression ; Therapeutics ; Drugs ; Residents [care homes] ; Long term ; General practitioners ; Care home staff.
Annotation	The visiting general practitioner (GP) plays a key role in co-ordinating treatment of depression in older people in long-term care. Older people with depression should respond to treatment with antidepressant medication, ideally combined with attention to current physical health status. Psychological and social factors should also be assessed and addressed in their role as causes or maintaining factors for depression. For those meeting criteria for major depression, the drug of choice is now a selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitor (SSRI): there is no evidence that benzodiazepines or neuroleptic compounds are useful in treating a depressive illness. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-990209003 A
Classmark	ENR: LL: LLD: KX: 4Q: QT6: QRM
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