Bereavement and late-life depression: Grief and its complications in the elderly

Annual Review of Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue , 1997, Pages 421-428

  Rosenzweig, Andrew ^a   Prigerson, Holly ^a   Miller, Mark D ^a   Reynolds III, Charles F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bereavement related depression; Complicated grief; Posttraumatic stress disorder

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; PAROXETINE;

AGED; ANXIETY; BEREAVEMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEPRESSION; GERONTOPSYCHIATRY; GRIEF; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SPOUSE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

AGED; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; BEREAVEMENT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRIEF; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PSYCHOTHERAPY; WIDOWHOOD;

EID: 0031046850     PISSN: 00664219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.med.48.1.421     Document Type: Review

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