TY - JOUR
T1 - Potential for community programs to prevent depression in older people
AU - Bird, Michael J.
AU - Parslow, Ruth A.
PY - 2002/10/7
Y1 - 2002/10/7
N2 - Depression is one of the most common mental health disorders in older people. Sequelae include unnecessary suffering, excess physical and social disability, exacerbation of co-existing illness, earlier death, and overuse of services. There are currently no reported public health approaches to prevent late-life depression. Five risk factors appear susceptible to community-level prevention programs: recurrent depression, commonly undertreated precipitants, vascular disease, functional impairments, and metabolite abnormalities. We propose three broad but interacting prevention methods: increasing literacy about late-life depression, exercise, and dietary supplements.
AB - Depression is one of the most common mental health disorders in older people. Sequelae include unnecessary suffering, excess physical and social disability, exacerbation of co-existing illness, earlier death, and overuse of services. There are currently no reported public health approaches to prevent late-life depression. Five risk factors appear susceptible to community-level prevention programs: recurrent depression, commonly undertreated precipitants, vascular disease, functional impairments, and metabolite abnormalities. We propose three broad but interacting prevention methods: increasing literacy about late-life depression, exercise, and dietary supplements.
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U2 - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2002.tb04868.x
DO - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2002.tb04868.x
M3 - Review article
SN - 0025-729X
VL - 177
SP - S107-S110
JO - Medical Journal of Australia
JF - Medical Journal of Australia
IS - 7 SUPPL.
ER -