Depression in the spouses of demented patients
- 1 November 1984
- journal article
- case report
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 141 (11) , 1467-1468
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.141.11.1467
Abstract
The authors present three cases of depression requiring hospitalization in spouses of patients with progressive dementia. They discuss the stress of caring for demented people and the need for clinicians to inquire about depressive symptoms in care givers.Keywords
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