## 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 individual
Geriatric Depression in Primary Care
✍ Scribed by Park, Mijung; Unützer, Jürgen
- Book ID
- 122597114
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 149 KB
- Volume
- 34
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0193-953X
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