Mental illness in late life: socioeconomic conditions, psychiatric symptoms, and adjustment of long-term sufferers

Article Abstract:

The mental health of older adults has been studied in hospital but less research has been carried out on adults in the community. A survey of older adults with mental health problems has found a link between financial poverty and mental illness, but these older adults tended to be socially integrated and were functioning better than a younger group, with a lower level of symptoms. The integration into social networks appears to explain the ability of the older group to maintain themselves.

Psychological aspects, Aged, Elderly, Mentally ill aged, Mentally ill elderly

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Health-related stress, affect and depressive symptoms experienced by care giving mothers of adults with a developmental disability

Article Abstract:

The interrelationships among health-related stress, positive and negative affect, and depressive symptoms patterned in the dynamic model of affect were examined. Under high-stress conditions both negative and positive affect have a stronger relationship to depressive symptoms than they do under low-stress conditions.

United States, Science & research, Stress (Psychology)

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Longitudinal relationships between depressive symptoms and health in normal older and middle-aged adults

Article Abstract:

The relationship between health and depression in a sample of community-resident middle-aged and older adults was examined. Different durations of depressive symptoms had different relationships to health.

Health aspects, Aging, Depression in old age, Geriatric depression

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