What characterizes late-life depression?
This article analyzes late-life depression, looking carefully at what defines a person as elderly, the incidence of late-life depression, complications and differences in symptoms between young and old patients with depression, subsyndromal depression, bipolar depression in the elderly, the relationship between grief and depression, along with sleep disturbances and suicidal ideation.
Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, 1402 29 St NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 2T9; University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Electronic address: zahinoor@gmail.com.
Zahinoor
Z
Ismail
Corinne
C
Fischer
W Vaughn
WV
McCall
D017677:Age Distribution; D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging / Q000523:psychology*; D057565:Apathy; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000453:epidemiology; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology; D015897:Comorbidity; D003863:Depression / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D018450:Disease Progression; D005260:Female; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D011788:Quality of Life; D012893:Sleep Wake Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D059020:Suicidal Ideation
Bipolar; Complications in depression; Geriatric medicine; Late-life depression; Sleep disturbance; Suicide