ABSTRACT Introduction: The aging population in the growing national industrialization and urbanization supports an unhealthy lifestyle where prevention control of chronic diseases are difficult. Approximately 68% elderly have some type disease, mostly musculoskeletal, especially knee joint, compromising their autonomy affecting social life, with psychological impacts long term. Team sports sugg...

objective: the objectives of the study were to find out the prevalence of depression and to identify associated risk factors among community dwelling elderly in karachi. methods: it was a cross-sectional, descriptive study involving 284 community-dwelling elderly residing in karachi, pakistan. a non-probability convenience sampling was done. the geriatric depression scale (gds-15) was used to a...