One-week prevalence of depressive symptoms and psychotropic drug treatments among old people with different levels of cognitive impairment living in institutional care: Changes between 1982 and 2000

International Psychogeriatrics

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1154-1160

  Lövheim, Hugo ^a   Bergdahl, Ellinor ^a   Sandman, Per Olof ^b   Karlsson, Stig ^b   Gustafson, Yngve ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; dementia; depression; nursing home; old age; SSRI

Indexed keywords

PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; RESIDENTIAL HOME; STATISTICS; SWEDEN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COGNITION DISORDERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; RESIDENTIAL FACILITIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SWEDEN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79952116935     PISSN: 10416102     EISSN: 1741203X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S104161021000061X     Document Type: Review

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