منابع مشابه
Psychological Determinants of Depression in Old Age
The present study investigated the role of recent life events and other psychological factors relating to alienation, hopelessness, personality dimensions and religiosity in patients with first episode of depression in old age. A sample of 50 subjects who had first episode of depression at or after the age of 50 were selected from Psychiatric Centre, Jaipur along with a matched sample of 50 nor...
متن کاملOld age depression and its treatment.
The Numbers of elderly people are gradually increasing in our society, and mood disorders are progressively increasing among older people. Old age depression may also occur after life events: the death of the significant other, economical reasons, health problems (neurological and/or cardiovascular diseases, arthritis, cancer, nutritional deficiency) and can develop into a depressive state. Old...
متن کاملLoneliness, depression and sociability in old age
BACKGROUND The elderly population is large in general and growing due to advancement of health care education. These people are faced with numerous physical, psychological and social role changes that challenge their sense of self and capacity to live happily. Many people experience loneliness and depression in old age, either as a result of living alone or due to lack of close family ties and ...
متن کاملLoneliness Depression Sociability in Old Age People
INTRODUCTION Loneliness is a subjective, negative feeling related to the person's own experience of deficient social relations. The determinants of loneliness are most often defined on the basis of 2 causal models. The first model examines the external factors, which are absent in the social network, as the root of the loneliness; while the second explanatory model refers to the internal factor...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 1993
ISSN: 0007-1250,1472-1465
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.163.4.555a