Depression often looks different in older individuals, and can be accompanied by confusion, memory loss, and even physical ...

Although some older adults may assume that sadness or depression is just a part of growing older, feeling blue consistently for several weeks, months, or longer is not a normal part of aging its a ...

A brief psychosocial intervention for older adults initiating antidepressants improves illness perceptions compared with standard care.

AMSTERDAM — A single inhalation of nitrous oxide (N 2 O) was associated with significant, rapid, and sustained improvement of treatment-resistant depression (TRD) in older adults, a new study showed.

For decades, work hands people a ready-made social life. There are meetings, lunch breaks, hallway chats and shared deadlines ...

Older adults with major depressive disorder (MDD) exhibit riskier driving behaviors than their nondepressed peers, including hard braking, cornering, and unpredictable driving patterns, new research ...

Experiencing depression as an older adult can indicate that a person has dementia, according to a new study. Doctors should view older adults who experience depression later in life as possibly having ...

Researchers evaluated the relationship between chronic gastrointestinal diseases and trajectories of depressive symptoms among older adults.

Marked variation in the prevalence of depression was found in a multisite sample of community-dwelling older adults in the United States. Marked variation in the prevalence of depression was found in ...

A cross-sectional study of over 1,000 hospitalized older adults in Germany found that poorer physical function and more ...

Older adults in India have an almost 12% higher risk of depression when their adult children are unemployed. A new study from Umeå University shows that unemployment among younger generations ...