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Predictors of increased mortality in elderly depressed patients

✍ Scribed by Peter W. Burvill; Wayne D. Hall

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1994
Tongue
English
Weight
733 KB
Volume
9
Category
Article
ISSN
0885-6230

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✦ Synopsis

Five-year standardized mortality rates for a cohort of elderly depressed patients in Perth, Western Australia, were greater than expected ( M = 2.047, F = 1.658). These results were very similar to the 4-year rates in a London study , as were the causes of death. There was a significantly greater chance of being alive at the end of 5 years if, on entry to the study, the patients were: female, less than 75 years of age, had no impairment of mobility, had a diagnosis of major depression with melancholia and psychosis, and had a good recovery from the depressive illness at the end of 12 months. Impairment of mobility was the best physical status indicator of subsequent mortality. Two measures of patient's self-assessment of physical status were as good predictors of mortality as a physician assessment of health, other than impairment of mobility.

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