Late-life depression, religiosity, cerebrovascular disease, cognitive impairment and attitudes towards death in the elderly: Interpreting the data

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 493-496

  Fountoulakis, Konstantinos N ^a   Siamouli, Melina ^a   Magiria, Stamatia ^a   Kaprinis, George ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ELDERLY CARE; FEAR; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MENTAL FUNCTION; NEUROIMAGING; PERSONALITY; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RELIGION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STROKE; VASCULAR DISEASE;

AGED; AGING; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEPRESSION; HUMANS; RELIGION; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 38749104695     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2007.01.093     Document Type: Article

References (49)

1. Vaillant G.E., Orav J., Meyer S.E., Mc Cullough Vaillant L., and Roston D. Late-life consequences of affective spectrum disorder. Int Psychogeriatr 8 (1996) 13-32
2. Blazer D., Burchetti B., Service C., et al. The association of age in depression among the elderly: an epidemiologic exploration. J Gerontol 46 (1991) M210-M215
3. Reynolds C.F. Treatment of depression in special populations. J Clin Psychiat 53 Suppl. 9 (1992) 45-53
4. Serby M., and Yu M. Overview: depression in the elderly. Mt Sinai J Med 70 1 (2003) 38-44
5. Branconnier R.J., Cole J.O., Ghazvinian D., Spera K.F., Oxenkrug G.F., and Bass J.L. Clinical pharmacology of bupropion and imipramine in elderly depressives. J Clin Psychiat 44 (1983) 130-133
6. Rapp S.R., Parisi S.A., and Walsh D.A. Psychological dysfunction and physical health among elderly medical inpatients. J Consult Clin Psychol 56 (1988) 851-855
7. Katz I.R., Lesher E., Kleban M., Jethanandani V., and Parmelee P.A. Clinical features of depression in the nursing home. Int Psychogeriatr 1 (1989) 5-15
8. Foster J.R., Cataldo J.K., and Boksay I.J.E. Incidence of depression in a medical long-term facility: findings from a restricted sample of new admissions. Int J Geriatr Psychiat 6 (1991) 13-20
9. Parmelee P.A., Kleban M.H., Lawton M.P., and Katz I.R. Depression and cognitive change among institutionalized aged. Psychol Aging 6 (1991) 504-511
10. NIH Consensus Development Panel on Depression in Late Life. Diagnosis and treatment of depression in late life. J Am Med Assoc 1992;268:1018-24.
11. Katz I.R., and Parmelee P.A. Depression in elderly patients residential care settings. In: Schneider L.S., Reynolds C.F., Lebowitz B.D., and Fiedhoff A. (Eds). Diagnosis and treatment of depression in late life: results of the NIH consensus development conference (1994), American Psychiatric Press, Washington DC 437-442
12. Weyerer S., Hafner H., Mann A., Ames D., and Graham N. Prevalence and course of depression among elderly residential home admissions in Mannheim and Camden, London. Int Psychogeriatr 7 (1995) 479-493
13. La Rue A. Geriatric psychiatry: psychological aspects. In: Sadock K. (Ed). Comprehensive textbook of psychiatry. 6th ed. (1995), Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore 2527-2532
14. Butters M.A., Whyte E.M., Nebes R.D., et al. The nature and determinants of neuropsychological functioning in late-life depression. Arch Gen Psychiat 61 6 (2004) 587-595
15. Sheline Y.I., Barch D.M., Garcia K., et al. Cognitive function in late life depression: relationships to depression severity, cerebrovascular risk factors and processing speed. Biol Psychiat 60 1 (2006) 58-65
16. Erikson E. Childhood and society (1950), Norton, New York
17. Templer D.I. Death anxiety as related to depression and health in retired persons. J Gerontol 4 (1971) 521-523a
18. Wu A.M., Tang C.S., and Kwok T.C. Death anxiety among Chinese elderly people in Hong Kong. J Aging Health 14 1 (2002) 42-56
19. Silveira E.R., and Ebrahim S. Social determinants of psychiatric morbidity and well-being in immigrant elders and whites in east London. Int J Geriatr Psychiat 13 11 (1998) 801-812
20. Uradhyaya A.K., Abou-Saleh M.T., Wilson K., Grime S.J., and Critchley M. A study of depression in old age using SPECT. Brit J Psychiat 157 Suppl. 9 (1990) 76-81
21. O'Brien J.T., Firbank M.J., Krishnan M.S., et al. White matter hyperintensities rather than lacunar infarcts are associated with depressive symptoms in older people: the LADIS study. Am J Geriatr Psychiat 14 10 (2006) 834-841
22. Simpson S., Baldwin R.C., Jackson A., Burns A., and Thomas P. Is the clinical expression of late-life depression influenced by brain changes? MRI subcortical neuroanatomical correlates of depressive symptoms. Int Psychogeriatr 12 4 (2000) 425-434
23. Tupler L.A., Krishnan K.R., McDonald W.M., Dombeck C.B., D'Souza S., and Steffens D.C. Anatomic location and laterality of MRI signal hyperintensities in late-life depression. J Psychosom Res 53 2 (2002) 665-676
24. Nebes R.D., Reynolds III C.F., Boada F., et al. Longitudinal increase in the volume of white matter hyperintensities in late-onset depression. Int J Geriatr Psychiat 17 6 (2002) 526-530
25. de Groot J.C., de Leeuw F.E., Oudkerk M., Hofman A., Jolles J., and Breteler M.M. Cerebral white matter lesions and depressive symptoms in elderly adults. Arch Gen Psychiat 57 11 (2000) 1071-1076
26. Fountoulakis K.N., O'Hara R., Iacovides A., et al. Unipolar late-onset depression: a comprehensive review. Ann Gen Hosp Psychiat 2 1 (2003) 11
27. Maier W., Lichtermann D., Minges J., et al. Unipolar depression in the aged: determinants of familial aggregation. J Affect Disorders 23 (1991) 53-61
28. Drevets W.C. Geriatric depression: brain imaging correlates and pharmacologic considerations. J Clin Psychiat 55 9 (1994) 71-81
29. Alexopoulos G.S., Meyers B.S., Young R.C., Campbell S., Silbersweig D., and Charlson M. Vascular depression' hypothesis. Arch Gen Psychiat 54 10 (1997) 915-922
30. Salloway S., Malloy P., Kohn R., et al. MRI and neuropsychological differences in early- and late-life-onset geriatric depression. Neurology 46 6 (1996) 1567-1574
31. Licht-Strunk E., Bremmer M.A., van Marwijk H.W., et al. Depression in older persons with versus without vascular disease in the open population: similar depressive symptom patterns, more disability. J Affect Disorders 83 2-3 (2004) 155-160
32. Baldwin R.C., and O'Brien J. Vascular basis of late-onset depressive disorder. Brit J Psychiat 180 (2002) 157-160
33. Alexopoulos G.S., Meyers B.S., Young R.C., Kakuma T., Silbersweig D., and Charlson M. Clinically defined vascular depression. Am J Psychiat 154 4 (1997) 562-565
34. Naarding P., de Koning I., van Kooten F., Janzing J.G., Beekman A.T., and Koudstaal P.J. Post-stroke dementia and depression: frontosubcortical dysfunction as missing link?. Int J Geriatr Psychiat 22 1 (2006) 1-8
35. Lyness J.M., Caine E.D., Cox C., King D.A., Conwell Y., and Olivares T. Cerebrovascular risk factors and later-life major depression. Testing a small-vessel brain disease model. Am J Geriatr Psychiat 6 1 (1998) 5-13
36. Colantonio A., Kasi S.V., and Ostfeld A.M. Depressive symptoms and other psychosocial factors as predictors of stroke in the elderly. Am J Epidemiol 136 7 (1992) 884-894
37. Rao R., Dening T., Brayne C., and Huppert F. Attitudes toward death: a community study of octoagenarians and nonagenarians. Int Psychogeriatr 9 2 (1997) 213-221
38. Jeffers F.C., Nickols C.R., and Eisdorfer C. Attitudes of older persons to death. J Gerontol 16 (1961) 53-56
39. Lawton M.P. The Philadelphia geriatric center morale scale: a revision. J Gerontol 30 (1975) 85-89
40. Christ P.E.I. Attitudes towards death among a group of acute geriatric psychiatric patients. J Gerontol 16 (1961) 56-59
41. Swenson W.M. Attitudes toward death in an aged population. J Gerontol 16 (1961) 49-52
42. Koenig H.G., Cohen H.J., Blazer D.G., et al. Religious coping and depression among elderly hospitalized medically ill men. Am J Psychiat 149 (1992) 1693-1700
43. Koenig H.G., Cohen H.J., Blazer D.G., et al. Religious comping and cognitive symptoms of depression among elderly medical patients. Psychosomatics 36 369-375 (1995)
44. Hahn C.Y., Yang M.S., Yang M.J., Shih C.H., and Lo H.Y. Religious attendance and depressive symptoms among community dwelling elderly in Taiwan. Int J Geriatr Psychiat 19 12 (2004) 1148-1154
45. Milstein G., Bruce M.L., Gargon N., Brown E., Raue P.J., and McAvay G. Religious practice and depression among geriatric home care patients. Int J Psychiat Med 33 1 (2003) 71-83
46. Persson G. Five-year mortality in a 70-year old urban population in relation to psychiatric diagnosis, personality, sexuality and early parental death. Acta Psychiatr Scand 64 (1981) 244-253
47. Tennant C. Parental loss in childhood: its effects in adult life. Arch Gen Psychiat 45 (1988) 1045-1050
48. Kendler K.S., Kessler R.C., Neale M.C., Health A.C., and Eaves L.J. The prediction of major depression in women: toward an integrated etiological model. Am J Psychiat 150 (1993) 1139-1148
49. Kiveld S.L., Luukinen H., Koski K., Viramo P., and Pahkala K. Early loss of mother or father predicts depression in old age. Int J Geriatric Psychiat 13 8 (1998) 527-530