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Elderly Depression
Depression
isn't inevitable as we age, but the problems we may have
to face as we
get older, such as divorce, bereavement and ill health, can predispose
to it.
At certain stages of our development we may become more
vulnerable to external changes, and we will show this
internal strain by
being depressed. It is lowering to find we can not do the things we
used to, nor do we have the status of holding down a job.
You may check your mood status using our simple geriatric depression test.
As we go
through middle age we may start to feel that we are lagging behind, we
are slower than we once were.
The social causes of depression are
the most important factors for elderly depression, which are always
associated with separation
and loss.
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Being poor does not necessarily lead to
depression, but if poverty means a loss of status, it may.
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Bad weather does not necessarily lead to
depression, but if bad weather means that you have to abandon a treat,
then it can.
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Belonging
to a minority group does not cause depression, but if by being so you
are cut off from others or persecuted then it would not be surprising
if you did get depressed.
Most
people believe that there is one social factor - ISOLATION - that
seems
to be linked very closely with a tendency to depression. As we get
older, a wide range of social and psychological stresses may contribute
to depression.
Bereavement would be the most dramatic for all of us,
but other causes of isolation, such as our children getting married or
their moving to another part of the country, or our re-housing away
from a familiar neighbourhood, are examples that can cause disquiet.
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Do you have your own experiences with elderly depression?
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