Screening for Depression in the Older Adult
Open Access
- 9 August 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of internal medicine (1960)
- Vol. 159 (15) , 1701-1704
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.159.15.1701
Abstract
DEPRESSIVE symptoms and major depression are major public health problems in late life.1 Early diagnostic recognition of major depression in the primary care setting is needed if the morbidity associated with late-life depression is to be reduced.2 Consequently, there is considerable interest in the development of screening instruments that can be used to identify this often undiagnosed and undertreated disorder in the older adult.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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