Mental illness in late life: socioeconomic conditions, psychiatric symptoms, and adjustment of long-term sufferers
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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.
Publication Name: Psychology and Aging
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0882-7974
Year: 1997
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Health-related stress, affect and depressive symptoms experienced by care giving mothers of adults with a developmental disability
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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.
Publication Name: Psychology and Aging
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0882-7974
Year: 2004
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Longitudinal relationships between depressive symptoms and health in normal older and middle-aged adults
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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.
Publication Name: Psychology and Aging
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0882-7974
Year: 2000
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