Treatment of depression in late life.
This paper updates the 1996 review of treatment approaches published in the Am J Geriatr Psychiatry (1996;4[suppl 1]:S51-S65 [see ref33]) and a chapter in A Guide to Treatments that Work (Nathan PE, Gorman JM, eds), Oxford University Press, New York, 1998 [see ref 54]:. The major focus is on psychophannacoiogy with attention also to the évidence for the efficacy of psychotherapeutic and somatic approaches.
Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology, and Gerontology, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, Calif, USA.
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