Social support deficits, loneliness and life events as risk factors for depression in old age. The Gospel Oak Project VI

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 323-332

  Prince, M J ^a   Harwood, R H ^b   Blizard, R A ^b   Thomas, A ^b   Mann, A H ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BEREAVEMENT; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HOME CARE; HOUSING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFE EVENT; LONELINESS; MALE; MARRIAGE; NORMAL HUMAN; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SENESCENCE; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; THEFT; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DISABLED PERSONS; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LONDON; LONELINESS; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOMETRICS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0030932244     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291796004485     Document Type: Article

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