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Review
. 2013 Dec;36(4):483-96.
doi: 10.1016/j.psc.2013.08.010. Epub 2013 Oct 6.

What characterizes late-life depression?

Zahinoor Ismail  1 , Corinne Fischer, W Vaughn McCall
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Review

What characterizes late-life depression?

Zahinoor Ismail et al. Psychiatr Clin North Am. 2013 Dec.

Abstract

This article analyzes late-life depression, looking carefully at what defines a person as elderly, the incidence of late-life depression, complications and differences in symptoms between young and old patients with depression, subsyndromal depression, bipolar depression in the elderly, the relationship between grief and depression, along with sleep disturbances and suicidal ideation.

Keywords: Bipolar; Complications in depression; Geriatric medicine; Late-life depression; Sleep disturbance; Suicide.

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