The Geriatric Depression Scale has been the best validated among the elderly; however, it may not useful in the moderately to severely cognitively impaired elderly, and there has been little ...
the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS), first created by Yesavage et al., has been tested and used extensively with the older population. It is a brief questionnaire in which participants are asked ...
Both Julia and Al sought help from their doctors, and each was diagnosed with depression, a disorder that's as common in the elderly as it is in younger people. And both, fortunately, were ...
Evidence suggests that both anxiety and depression might have pathophysiological ... patients with the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). In total, 422 patients with PD and 98 control ...
Steffens, who works primarily with older adults over 60, describes how doctors need to carefully assess baseline symptoms of depression to be able to track improvement. The standard scale, the Patient ...
One Sunday morning, Charlie Woods returned home from church to find two police officers waiting at his door. First the officers asked if he had any health problems. Then they told him both his ...
In teenagers with childhood-onset chronic pain unrelated to chronic disease, poor sleep quality and depression were risk factors for substance use in young adulthood.