Key result
Medical, cognitive, and neuroradiological factors need further study as predictors of geriatric depression relapse.
Why the study?
Predictor findings of chronicity and relapse of depression from mixed-age populations may not be directly applicable to geriatric depression.
Highlights the need to evaluate medical, cognitive, and neurological factors in geriatric depression outcomes.
Does not yet alter geriatric depression management; leaves open the predictive value of medical, cognitive, and neuroradiological factors.
Recent advances in the methodology of longitudinal investigations have permitted the identification of predictors of chronicity and relapse of depression. However, findings from mixed-age populations may not be directly applicable to geriatric depression. The effects of medical illness, cognitive dysfunction, and neuroradiological abnormalities on the outcome of geriatric depression merit further evaluation. Late-onset depression requires special attention, since medical and neurological disorders may be particularly important factors in these cases.
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Alexopoulos et al. (1989) conducted a review in Geriatric depression. Medical illness, cognitive dysfunction, and neuroradiological abnormalities require further evaluation as predictors of chronicity and relapse in geriatric depression.
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