Life review therapy using autobiographical retrieval practice for older adults with depressive symptomatology

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Research to examine the efficacy of life based on treatment of older depressed adults aged 65-93 revealed that those in the treatment condition showed fewer depressive symptoms, less hopelessness, improved life station, and retrieval of more specific events. Results show that a useful tool in psychotherapy with older adults could be the practice in autobiographical memory for specific events.

HEALTH SERVICES, Ambulatory Health Care Services, Therapeutic Procedures, Therapeutics, Homeopathy, Psychotherapy

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DSM-IV criteria for generalized anxiety disorder in older adults: distinguishing the worried from the well

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Adults with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) were compared with adults with subsyndromal anxiety symptoms. The results indicated that the key features of late-life GAD are distress and impairment, frequency and uncontrollability of worry, muscle tension, and sleep disturbance.

Aging, Risk factors, Aging (Biology), Generalized anxiety disorder

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Personality and risk of cognitive impairment 25 years later

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Personality traits as risk factors for cognitive impairment were examined, by means of data on neuroticism and extraversion. Greater neuroticism was associated with higher risk of cognitive impairment in the results from the case-control, but not from co-twin analyses.

United States, Cognitive psychology, Personality, Personality traits, Extraversion

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