ArticleJournal of clinical and diagnostic research : JCDR2015
Screening Depression Among Elderly in a City of Southeast Asia.
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- Prevalence of depression among the elderly (60 years and above) population in India, 1997-2016: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC public health · 2019Pooled it
- Effect of a salutogenic program on depression, self-harming behaviour and sense of coherence among elderly residents of an old age home in Odisha.BMC geriatrics · 2026Article
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- Prevalence of depression amongst the Elderly population in old age homes of Mangalore city.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2021Article
- Adding life to years: Role of gender and social and family engagement in geriatric depression in rural areas of Northern India.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2020Article
- Elder abuse: Screening in Iranian families.Medical journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran · 2017Article
- Comparison of the extent and prevalence of prescription of potentially inappropriate medications prescribed to geriatric age group residing in old-age homes versus those receiving care from tertiary care hospital using Beers criteria.Perspectives in clinical researchArticle
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Abstract
introductionChanging family structure (Joint to Nuclear), increased life expectancy above 60 years of age, generation and communication gap, financial dependency on children leads to conflict among family members. This may sometime lead to old age home settlement of elderly people. All these condition leads to isolation and insecurity among elderly people and this condition affect the mental status of elderly people which may sometime lead to depression among Old Age Homes residents and family living elderly people.
objectiveTo study the prevalence of depression and diagnosed systemic morbidities among elderly people. To study the predictors of depression among study subjects. MATERIALS AND
methodsA descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among elderly people (age ≥60 years) residing in old age homes (OAHs) and in community/families in Lucknow, India. Multistage sampling technique was used to include required sample of subjects from the community and for OAHs all the elderly people living in OAHs were included. Geriatric depression scale was used to screen depression.
resultsDepression was 27.7% among elderly people residing in OAHs while it was 15.6% those residing at their own homes. In community most frequent morbidity was hypertension (17.7%) while 41.1% elderly people had no diagnosed morbidity. In OAHs out of total the musculoskeletal morbidity (33.7%) was most frequent and 18.8% had no diagnosed morbidity. On multivariate analysis financial dependency and education were found to be statistically significant.
conclusionDepression was more common among elderly living in Old Age Homes as compare to those living in community. Hypertension, musculoskeletal morbidities and eye related morbidities were most frequent diagnosed morbidities. Financial Dependency & Education were found to be primary predictors of depression.
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