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Care for depression in HMO patients aged 65 and older

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Many elderly patients are not receiving adequate treatment for depression. In a study of 2,558 Medicare HMO patients, less than 30% of those with symptoms of depression received a prescription for an antidepressant.

Author: Unutzer, Jurgen, Belin, Thomas R., Simon, Gregory, Datt, Moctar, Katon, Wayne, Patrick, Donald
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Ltd.
Publication Name: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0002-8614
Year: 2000
Aged patients, Elderly patients

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Treatment of depression improves physical functioning in older adults

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The findings of the Improving Mood: Promoting Access to Collaborative Treatment (IMPACT) indicates that physical functioning improves as outcome of depression treatment among older adults. Depression clinical specialists worked in collaboration with primary care practitioners to provide more holistic intervention.

Author: Unutzer, Jurgen, Noel, Polly Hitchcock, Counsell, Steven R., Katon, Wayne, Callahan, Christopher M., Hendrie, Hugh C., Harpole, Linda, Hunkeler, Enid M., Kroneke, Kurt, Perkins, Anthony J.
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Ltd.
Publication Name: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0002-8614
Year: 2005
Science & research, Research, Intervention (Psychology)

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Reducing suicidal ideation in depressed older primary care patients

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The role primary care centers program in reducing of suicidal ideas of depressed elderly is presented.

Author: Unutzer, Jurgen, Katon, Wayne, Levine, Stuart, Hunkeler, Enid, Oishi, Sabine, Lin, Elizabeth H.B., Tang, Lingqi, John W. Williams, Jr., Hendrie, Hugh, Grypma, Lydia, Steffens, David C., Fields, Julie, Langston, Christopher
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Ltd.
Publication Name: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0002-8614
Year: 2006
Management dynamics, Psychological aspects, Aged, Elderly, Analysis, Management, Influence, Suicide, Suicide prevention, Company business management

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Subjects list: Care and treatment, United States, Depression in old age, Geriatric depression, Primary nursing, Primary care nursing
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