ReviewAging & mental health2016
Towards a new conceptualization of depression in older adult cancer patients: a review of the literature.
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- Development of Psychosocial Distress in Cancer Survivors and Its Potential Prognostic Impact on Survival: A Scoping Review.Psycho-oncology · 2026Article
- Distinct Symptom Profiles in Younger and Older Patients With Cancer Receiving Chemotherapy.Cancer medicine · 2026Article
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- Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Symptoms (DASS-21) in Elderly Women in Association with Health Status (SHSQ-25): A Cross-Sectional Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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- Anxiety and Depression in Women Newly Diagnosed with Breast Cancer and Waiting for Surgery: Prevalence and Associations with Socio-Demographic Variables.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2021Article
- Latent Profile Analyses of Depressive Symptoms in Younger and Older Oncology Patients.Assessment · 2020Article
- Depressive Symptom Profiles and Survival in Older Patients with Cancer: Latent Class Analysis of the ELCAPA Cohort Study.The oncologist · 2019Article
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- Prevalence and predictors of depression, pain, and fatigue in older- versus younger-adult cancer survivors.Psycho-oncology · 2018Article
- Psychiatric and Medical Comorbidity in the Primary Care Geriatric Patient-An Update.Current psychiatry reports · 2016Review
- On taking up space: a qualitative inquiry of depression in older adults with cancer.Aging & mental healthArticle
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Abstract
objectivesIdentifying depression in older adults with cancer presents a set of unique challenges, as it combines the confounding influences of cancer and its treatment with the developmental changes associated with aging. This paper reviews the phenomenology of depression in older adults, and individuals diagnosed with cancer.
methodPsychInfo, PubMed, Web of Science, and Google Scholar databases were searched for English-language studies addressing the phenomenology, symptoms, or assessment of depression in older adults and those with cancer.
resultsThe Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM) criteria that appear to be relevant to both older adults and cancer patients are anhedonia, concentration difficulties, sleep disturbances, psychomotor retardation/agitation, and loss of energy. Possible alternative criteria that may be important considerations included constructs such as loss of purpose, loneliness, and irritability in older adults. Among cancer patients, tearfulness, social withdrawal, and not participating in treatment despite ability to do so were identified as potentially important symptoms.
conclusionsCurrent DSM criteria may not adequately assess depression in older cancer patients and alternative criteria may be important to inform the understanding and identification of depression in this population. Enhancing diagnostic accuracy of depression is important as both the over-diagnosis and under-diagnosis is accompanied with significant costs. Thus, continued research exploring the phenomenology and identifying effective indicators of depression in older cancer patients is needed.
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