Titlebook: Antidepressants for Elderly People; Karabi Ghose (Honorary Consultant in Geriatric Med Book 1989 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht

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Presentation and assessment of depression in old age Gurland ., 1980) population studies have reported that 10–15% of the elderly population over the age of 65 suffer from significant depressive symptoms. Despite the high prevalence, only a small proportion of the depressed elderly seek or receive psychiatric help. Williamson . (1964) reported that 7

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The epidemiology and natural history of depression in old agee symptoms in an elderly population and in deciding on the circumstances in which they may be said to constitute a full blown depressive illness. This chapter concentrates on British and North American studies and is intended to be representative rather than comprehensive. Available data on the age-

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Metabolic and endocrine effects of lithiumt about two in a thousand of the population are taking the drug in the United Kingdom. The main psychiatric indications for the use of lithium carbonate are the treatment of mania and the prophylaxis of recurrent affective disorders of the manic-depressive (bipolar) type. It has been claimed to be e

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Which antidepressant?ck of money, and other factors combine to promote depression. There is a tendency for antidepressant drugs to be prescribed inappropriately under these circumstances, because communication problems and the relative immobility of the elderly make it difficult to offer other forms of help for which re

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Cardiovascular effects of tricyclic antidepressants in elderly people obsessional. Their concern may well be unnecessary in the case of younger patients taking therapeutic doses of these drugs, but they are probably right to be anxious about their elderly patients. Unfortunately, it is not possible to relieve this anxiety by prescribing only drugs which are known to