Home-delivered problem adaptation therapy (PATH) for depressed, cognitively impaired, disabled elders: A preliminary study

American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 988-998

  Kiosses, Dimitris N ^a   Arean, Patricia A ^b   Teri, Linda ^c   Alexopoulos, George S ^a,d  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d The Cornell Institute of Geriatric Psychiatry   (United States)

Author keywords

cognitive impairment; dementia; Depression; disability; home delivered; psychosocial intervention

Indexed keywords

CITALOPRAM; PAROXETINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISABILITY; DISABLED PERSON; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HAMILTON SCALE; HOME DELIVERED PROBLEM ADAPTATION THERAPY; HOME DELIVERED SUPPORTIVE THERAPY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78149283788     PISSN: 10647481     EISSN: 15457214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JGP.0b013e3181d6947d     Document Type: Article

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