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Editorial. Geriatric depression in primary care

✍ Scribed by George S. Alexopoulos

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1996
Tongue: English
Weight: 357 KB
Volume: 11
Category: Article
ISSN: 0885-6230
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1166(199605)11:5<397::aid-gps493>3.0.co;2-y

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EDITORIAL Geriatric Depression in Primary Care

The prevalence of geriatric depression is much higher in medical settings than in the community. Epidemiological studies show that major depression occurs in 1 O/ O of the general elderly population while 3% of community residing elderly individuals suffer from dysthymia and 8-15% have clinically significant depressive symptomatology (NIH Consensus Development Conference, 1992). In mixed-age patients treated in primary care settings, depression was identified in 17-37% of patients (

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