{"id":67623,"date":"2012-01-15T16:46:24","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T16:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/neurology\/depression-treatment-is-as-effective-in-older-over-65-as-in-younger-adults.php"},"modified":"2024-08-17T18:49:34","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T22:49:34","slug":"depression-treatment-is-as-effective-in-older-over-65-as-in-younger-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/neurology\/depression-treatment-is-as-effective-in-older-over-65-as-in-younger-adults.php","title":{"rendered":"Depression treatment is as effective in older (over 65) as in younger adults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/13e8b_200px-Vincent_Willem_van_Gogh_002.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/13e8b_200px-Vincent_Willem_van_Gogh_002.jpg\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a>Depression in later life, traditionally defined as age older than 65, is associated with disability, increased mortality, and poorer outcomes. <\/p><p>Compared to younger adults with depression:<\/p><p>- <b>cognitive and functional impairment and anxiety are more common<\/b> in older adults<\/p><p>- older adults with depression are at <b>increased risk of suicide <\/b><\/p><p>Depression is associated with cognitive impairment and an increased risk of dementia. <\/p><p>A selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) should be the first line pharmacological treatment for depression for most older adults.<\/p><p>Psychological and drug <b>treatment is as effective<\/b> in older as in younger adults<\/p><p>References:<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/343\/bmj.d5219.short\">Depression in older adults<\/a>. Rodda et al. BMJ, 2011.<\/p><p>Image source: Vincent van Gogh's 1890 painting At Eternity's Gate.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Vincent_Willem_van_Gogh_002.jpg\">Wikipedia<\/a>, public domain.<\/p><div><p>Posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/casesblog.blogspot.com\/\">Clinical Cases and Images<\/a>. 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Compared to younger adults with depression:- cognitive and functional impairment and anxiety are more common in older adults- older adults &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/neurology\/depression-treatment-is-as-effective-in-older-over-65-as-in-younger-adults.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1246864],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neurology"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}