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Comorbidity with depression in older people: the Islington Study
- Authors:
- KATONA C.L.E., MANELA M.V., LIVINGSTON G.A.
- Journal article citation:
- Aging and Mental Health, 1(1), February 1997, pp.57-61.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Discusses the results of a research study into comorbidity and other associations of depression in a community sample of older adults in the inner London borough of Islington. Results found that older people who were depressed were likely to have other comorbid physical and psychiatric pathology, namely general anxiety, phobic anxiety, physical disability, somatic symptoms, sleep disturbance and subjective memory impairment. The overwhelming majority of older people with depression were not receiving pharmacological treatment. Concludes that while the majority of elderly people are psychiatrically well and do not require day to day help, those who are depressed have a significant rate of comorbidity and that health workers treating elderly people with depression should look for other physical and psychiatric conditions routinely.