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Depression In Elderly Women. Depression is a real medical condition. Physical aches and pains. The objective of this study was to evaluate if art therapy is beneficial as an adjuvant treatment for depression in the elderly. Depression symptoms can interfere with your ability to work.
Identification followed by a thorough assessment can help guide the selection of an appropriate antidepressant medication. Or they may be taking. Are lonely or socially isolated. Between 10 and 25 of women will experience an episode of major or clinical depression at some point in their life. The experimental group EG was assigned to 20 weekly art therapy sessions 90 minsession. Depression in the elderly is a significant common and growing problem that requires treatment.
Depression can occur in the elderly but it is not a normal part of aging.
Depressive symptoms and cognitive decline in nondemented elderly women. Prevalence of depression among older adults. Keywords depression elderly women aging self in-depth interviews race gender and class. In fact women are twice as likely to. Depression in older adults may be undiagnosed or misdiagnosed because they may not exhibit obvious symptoms or may not be willing to discuss their feelings with others. The effect of gender and age at onset of depression on mortality.