Guidelines on Depression in Older People

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Guidelines on Depression in Older People Practising the Evidence Róbert C Baldwin • Edmond Chiu • Cornelius Katona • Nori Graham Depressive disorder affects about 1 in 10 older people. Globally it exacts a huge toll on individuals, their caregivers and society. As the world's population ages the burden of depression too will increase. In recent years there has been an explosion of research into depressive disorder in later life. Despite this, levels of detection and treatment of depression are low in older people, particularly in the primary care setting. This suggests that there is an important gap between knowing the evidence and implementing it. Guidelines on Depression in Older People: Practising the Evidence addresses this gap by providing an overview of current evidence and best practice regarding the dassification, prevalence, causation and management of depressive disorder as it affects older people: Each chapter ends with a summary of the available evidence with... Tovább

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Guidelines on Depression in Older People Practising the Evidence Róbert C Baldwin • Edmond Chiu • Cornelius Katona • Nori Graham Depressive disorder affects about 1 in 10 older people. Globally it exacts a huge toll on individuals, their caregivers and society. As the world's population ages the burden of depression too will increase. In recent years there has been an explosion of research into depressive disorder in later life. Despite this, levels of detection and treatment of depression are low in older people, particularly in the primary care setting. This suggests that there is an important gap between knowing the evidence and implementing it. Guidelines on Depression in Older People: Practising the Evidence addresses this gap by providing an overview of current evidence and best practice regarding the dassification, prevalence, causation and management of depressive disorder as it affects older people: Each chapter ends with a summary of the available evidence with recommendations for best practice, based on agreed evidence-based criteria. The busy reader can refer tothe summary boxes and those who wish for more detail will find it in the text. This book will be of interest to primary care physicians, old age psychiatrists, neuroiogists, geriatricians, trainees, nurses and other practitioners working in the field. Róbert C Baldwin DM FRCP FRCPsych is Consultant Psychiatrist and Honorary Professor of Old Age Psychiatry, University of Manchester, Manchester Mentái Health and Social Care Trust, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, UK. Edmond chiu AM MBBS DPM FRANZCP is Associate Professor in Psychiatry of Old Age, Academic Unit for Psychiatry of Old Age, University of Melbourne, St George's Health Service, Kew, Victoria, Australia. Cornelius Katona MD FRCPsych is Professor of Psychiatry of the Elderly, University College London, London, UK. Nori Graham Bm BCh FRCPsych Duriiv is Emeritus Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry, Royal Free Hospitál, London, UK. Vissza