The Course of Elderly Depressed Out-patients
- 1 April 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 30 (3) , 217-220
- https://doi.org/10.1177/070674378503000310
Abstract
Fifty-five elderly depressed in-patients were followed up for 24 to 63 months, mean 48 months. Thirty-eight cases remained well more than 60% of the follow-up period and seventeen cases remained more or less chronically ill. These results are comparable with follow-up studies of elderly depressed in-patients. It is suggested that treatment compliance, absence of physical disability, long term follow-up and maintenance anti-depressant therapy in many cases are associated with favorable outcome.Keywords
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