Abstract
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.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 483-496 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | Psychiatric Clinics of North America |
Volume | 36 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Dec 1 2013 |
Keywords
- Bipolar
- Complications in depression
- Geriatric medicine
- Late-life depression
- Sleep disturbance
- Suicide
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Psychiatry and Mental health