Depression is the most common mental health problem in the elderly. While the incidence in community-dwelling older adults is no higher than in the general population, the risk increases significantly with medical illness or institutionalization. Depression is probably the best researched of the psychiatric disorders in the elderly, with epidemiological evidence indicating that older adults have the highest suicide rate of any age group (one-fourth of all suicides are carried out by persons age 60 or older by taking sleeping pills suicide). (more…)
Research indicates that anxiety symptoms are more prevalent in elderly people than in any other age group, occurring at about t ...
Abuse of drugs and alcohol is not uncommon among the elderly. The high rate of prescribed medication use, increased physiologic ...
Most older adults adapt successfully to the multiple developmental and social changes and late life depression that are common ...
It is estimated that about 6 million Americans over 65 suffer from depression in late life. The sad reality is that 10% are loo ...
Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions Research documenting the efficacy of Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions in treating the psyc ...
Elder maltreatment and abuse of the elderly is found in almost all countries of the world. According to the World Health Organization, elderly abuse is expected to continue to increase, particularly as many countries experience rapidly aging populations. Throughout the world, both elderly men and women are at high risk of abuse, neglect, and exploitation. Although older men are at risk of abuse in about the same proportion as women, elderly women are at higher risk of abuse, neglect, and exploitation in cultures where women are devalued. (more…)
Elderly abuse or elderly neglect can be put within the general category of violence that may be designed for different populati ...
The population of man aged over 65 will exceed the number of children under 5 years old in 2040, for the first time in history, ...
The economic status of older adults in the United States today is greatly improved, and there is much diversity of circumstance ...
Not only that the low birth rate leads directly to the aging population, a purely arithmetic on the number of young people, and ...
Spanning twenty-seven independent countries, the populations represent all possible situations in which people aging. The speed ...
Elderly abuse or elderly neglect can be put within the general category of violence that may be designed for different populations (women, children, seniors, etc.). Mistreating the elderly can occur in different areas: community, institution, society, etc. If it occurs on the community level, a category in which you can include it in the domestic or family violence, which also includes child maltreatment and intimate partner violence. (more…)
Elder maltreatment and abuse of the elderly is found in almost all countries of the world. According to the World Health Organi ...
Abuse of drugs and alcohol is not uncommon among the elderly. The high rate of prescribed medication use, increased physiologic ...
Alcohol abuse can be defined as individuals drink more than normal quantity but on regular basis. This habits causes poor healt ...
Older Person Care • Older persons should benefit from family and community based care and protection in accordance with e ...
The sleeping pills quadrupled the risk of suicide in the elderly, according to a study by the University of Gothenburg (Sweden) ...