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Prevention of Late-Life Depression
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Prevention of depression and its associated common mental disorders is a priority across the life cycle, and particularly in older adults. Currently available data from randomized clinical trials show that the rate of these disorders can be reduced on average 20–25 % over 1–2 years of follow-up. This is important with respect to: (1) reducing the current burden of suffering, even in the context of subsyndromal symptoms and (2) protection from fully syndromal depression and its down- stream consequences, including poor adherence with co-prescribed medical and behavioral interventions (because depression undermines adherence), family care–giving burden (because depression imposes considerable burden on family as well as patients), suicide (because depression is a major risk factor for suicide in older patients), and dementia (because depression is an important and poten- tially modifiable risk factor for both vascular and Alzheimer’s dementia). Additional work is needed to clarify biological and psychosocial mediators and moderators of depression prevention intervention; and to build scalable models of depression prevention for low-resource countries.
Olivia I. Okereke - Personal Name
1st Edtion
978-3-319-16045-0
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Prevention of Late-Life Depression
Psychology
English
Springer Cham Heidelberg
2015
USA
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