ArticleThe American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry2011
Depressive symptoms and functional transitions over time in older persons.
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- Symptomatic and functional recovery in depression in later life.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2018Article
- Barriers to Mental Health Care for an Ethnically and Racially Diverse Sample of Older Adults.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2016Article
- Depressive Symptoms, Transitions to Widowhood, and Informal Support From Adult Children Among Older Women and Men in Japan.Research on aging · 2016Article
- Psychometric properties of EURO-D, a geriatric depression scale: a cross-cultural validation study.BMC psychiatry · 2015Article
- Late-life depression and cardiovascular disease burden: examination of reciprocal relationship.The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry · 2014Article
- Relative effectiveness of reappraisal and distraction in regulating emotion in late-life depression.The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry · 2014Article
- Disentangling the disabling process: insights from the precipitating events project.The Gerontologist · 2014Review
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Abstract
objectiveThe authors determined the association between clinically significant depressive symptoms, often referred to as depression, and subsequent transitions between no disability, mild disability, severe disability, and death.
designProspective cohort study.
settingGeneral community in greater New Haven, Connecticut, from March 23, 1998, to December 31, 2008.
participantsSeven hundred fifty-four persons, age 70 years or older. MEASUREMENTS: Monthly assessments of disability in essential activities of daily living and assessments of depressive symptoms every 18 months using a short-form of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies of Depression Scale for up to 129 months.
resultsDepressed participants were more likely than those who were nondepressed to transition from a state of no disability to mild (HR = 1.52; 95% CI: 1.25-1.85) and severe disability (HR = 1.57; 95% CI: 1.22-2.01), and from a state of mild disability to severe disability (HR = 1.33; 95% CI: 1.06-1.65), and were less likely to transition from a state of mild disability to no disability (HR = 0.69; 95% CI: 0.57-0.85) and from a state of severe disability to no disability (HR = 0.50; 95% CI: 0.31-0.79).
conclusionsDepressive symptoms are associated with transitions into and out of disabled states and with increased likelihood of transitioning from mild to severe disability. More broadly, our findings underscore the complexity of the relationship between depressive symptoms and disability. Future work is needed to evaluate the likely reciprocal relationship between depression and functional transitions in older persons.
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