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Long-term follow-up of elderly depressed patients showed that 38 of 55 remained well for >60% of a mean 48-month period, while 17 remained chronically ill.
Cohort (n=55)
Elderly depressed patients can have a favorable long-term outcome, which may be associated with treatment compliance and maintenance antidepressant therapy.
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May support maintenance therapy in select elderly patients; extends prior cohorts but leaves causality open.
Fifty-five elderly depressed in-patients were followed up for 24 to 63 months, mean 48 months. Thirty-eight cases remained well more than 60% of the follow-up period and seventeen cases remained more or less chronically ill. These results are comparable with follow-up studies of elderly depressed in-patients. It is suggested that treatment compliance, absence of physical disability, long term follow-up and maintenance anti-depressant therapy in many cases are associated with favorable outcome.
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Martín G. Cole (1985) conducted a cohort in Elderly depression (n=55). Maintenance anti-depressant therapy and follow-up was evaluated on Remaining well for >60% of the follow-up period. Long-term follow-up of elderly depressed patients showed that 38 of 55 remained well for >60% of a mean 48-month period, while 17 remained chronically ill.
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