Materials and methods A cross-sectional study was designed and 132 aged (≥65) participated. All participants were members of the KAPI from a rural district in Crete, Greece. Data were collected with face-to-face interviews. Social activity and levels of participation in KAPI were examined. The Short Anxiety Screening Test (SAST) and the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS-15) was used to assess anx...

Social support and resilience were considered to be two significant influential factors for depression in late life. The study aims to present a mediation model for understanding the interrelations among social support, resilience, and geriatric depression. A cross-sectional survey study was conducted among 162 community-dwelling Chinese older adults in Singapore. Findings indicated a significa...

Objective: In this study, we examined the characteristics of depressien determination using four representatiye selfirating depression scales (Geriatric Depression Scale, GDS; Selfirating Depression Scale, SDS; Center for Epidemiotogic Studies Depressien Scale, CES-D; and Carroll Rating Scale, CRS) applied to Japanese community-dwelling elderly. Methods: Subjects were 563 community-dwelling ind...

OBJECTIVE To see whether elderly medical in-patients screening positive for depression on the Geriatric Depression Score show any change on discharge home and whether their scores predict this. DESIGN A prospective study. SETTING A large outer London district general hospital with acute wards for all medical admissions of people aged over 75 years. PARTICIPANTS We studied 179 consecutive ...

BACKGROUND More then half of elderly adults over 60 years old suffer from arthrosis. Pain and mobility reduction associated with this disease, reduce elderly peoples independence and are the reason of their physical disability. The aim of this study was to estimate coincidence of arthrosis and depression in population of outpatients of Geriatric Clinic and to asses the influence of each disease...

The diagnosis of depression in older patients is often complicated by comorbid conditions, such as cerebrovascular disease or dementia. Tools specific for this age group, such as the Geriatric Depression Scale or the Cornell Scale for Depression in Dementia, may assist in making the diagnosis. Treatment decisions should consider risks associated with medications, such as serotonin syndrome, hyp...

This research was conducted to examine the role of sociocultural factors on depression among elderly of twin cities (Rawalpindi and Islamabad) of Pakistan. 310 older adults participated in the present study. Through convenient sampling technique, face to face interview was carried out for data collection. Urdu translated Geriatric Depression Scale Short Form and demographic sheet were used to t...

OBJECTIVE We aimed to investigate the effect of ropinirole on excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) and depression in Parkinson's disease (PD) with a large population. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional observational study at nine hospitals in Korea between April 24, 2013, and April 22, 2015. We analyzed the demographic and clinical features, other medical history, history of antiparkinsonia...