The authors evaluated a structural model of the relationship between cognitive functioning and geriatric suicide ideation, mediated by Depression/Hopelessness, a latent construct characterized by a combination of the two. A heterogeneous sample of 90 elderly participants completed the Geriatric Suicide Ideation Scale, a new, multidimensional self-report measure of suicide ideation in seniors, a...

[Purpose] There have been no investigations into the improvement of activities of daily living among patients suffering from post-stroke depression on admission to convalescent rehabilitation wards in Japan. This study aimed to assess the improvement of activities in daily living in patients with or without post-stroke depression at the time of admission to a convalescent rehabilitation ward. [...

Purpose: In Parkinson's disease with mild cognitive impairment (PD-MCI), we investigated the clinical significance of salience network (SN) in depression and cognitive performance. Methods: Seventy seven PD-MCI patients that fulfilled multi-domain and non-amnestic subtype were included. Gray matter structural covariance networks were constructed by 3D T1-magnetic resonance imaging and seed base...

background: the purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of depression symptoms and the effect of various demographic characteristics on its severity in an elderly population in fars province, southern iran. methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted during may and september 2009. a sample of 1461 men and women, aged more than 60 years were selected using a multistage strati...

overweight/obesity and depression are common among women especially in the elderly and can lead to unfavorable outcomes. we aimed to determine the association of overweight with depression and also to find any correlation of depression with some anthropometric indices in old women. a total of 94 depressed elderly women were compared with 99 non-depressed controls. the structured diagnostic inte...

ôbjective: depression among elderly in ïran has not been well studied. little is known about the true rates of depression, it correlates or how well it is treated. this research is part of a series examining health status of older people using the geriatric depression scale-15 (gds-15). methods: ône thousand and nine hundred seventy five (1975) older people living in razavi khorasan province we...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Stroke, a major health issue affecting the elderly, limits their participation in society. The aim of this study was to investigate changes in stroke survivors' handicap levels and to identify their determinants in the subacute phase from 3 months to 1 year. METHODS Data were collected from a prospective cohort of 303 Chinese stroke survivors with the use of questionnai...

Three-hundred-and-thirty-four cognitive profiles from neuropsychological examinations assessed during a 2-yearperiod (2020 to 2022) geriatric patients of day clinic in the bhavnagar were analyzed. For this purpose, theprofiles divided into following subgroups:(1) Mild Cognitive Impairment, no depression (2) Onset or mild dementia, (3) No cognitivedeficit, (4) cognitively impaired (MCI, dementia...

MARCH 1, 2002 / VOLUME 65, NUMBER 5 www.aafp.org/afp AMERICAN FAMILY PHYSICIAN 883 physiologic changes associated with dying. Survey instruments designed to detect depression have not been well studied in patients who are dying and lack specificity because questions addressing somatic, functional and affective criteria can generate false-positive results. The Geriatric Depression Scale, for exa...

OBJECTIVE In this study, we examined the characteristics of depression determination using four representative self-rating depression scales (Geriatric Depression Scale, GDS; Self-rating Depression Scale, SDS; Center for Epidermiologic Studies Depression Scale, CES-D; and Carroll Rating Scale, CRS) applied to Japanese community-dwelling elderly. METHODS Subjects were 563 community-dwelling in...