Geriatric depression: age of onset and dementia. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Age of depression onset was studied in 183 consecutively hospitalized elderly patients with major depression. Patients with both depression and dementia had onset of depression at a significantly later age than patients with depression alone. Depressives with reversible dementia had age of onset comparable to that of depressives with irreversible dementia. These findings suggest that late-onset depression is a heterogeneous syndrome and includes a considerable number of patients who develop depression as part of a dementing illness.

publication date

  • August 1, 1993

Research

keywords

  • Age of Onset
  • Dementia

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0027326581

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1016/0006-3223(93)90383-o

PubMed ID

  • 8399805

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 34

issue

  • 3