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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRY
Volume 9, Issue 2, Pages 113-135Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajgp.9.2.113
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- NIMH NIH HHS [R37MH43832, K01 MH01613, K05 MH00295, R01 MH37869, R01 MH59318, P30 MH 52247, T32 MH19986] Funding Source: Medline
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Depression and anxiety disorders are associated with excess disability. The authors searched the recent geriatric literature for studies associating late-life depression or anxiety with physical disability Studies showed depression in old age to be an independent risk factor for disability; similarly, disability was found to be a risk factor for depression. Anxiety, in late life was also found to be a risk factor for disability,, although not necessarily independently of depression. Increased disability, due to depression is only partly! explained by differences in socioeconomic measures, medical conditions, and cognition. Physical disability, improves with treatment for depression; comparable studies hare not been done for anxiety! The authors discuss how these findings inform current concepts of physical disability and discuss the implications for future intervention studies of late-life depression and anxiety disorders.
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