Healthcare and preventive services utilization of elderly Europeans with depressive symptoms.
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Share data suggest that patients with depressive symptoms are frequent users of healthcare but not preventive services, and low screening rates may reflect missed screening opportunities rather than a lack of screening opportunities.About:
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Receipt of preventive medical care and medical screening for patients with mental illness: a comparative analysis
TL;DR: There is strong evidence to suggest that the quality of preventive and screening services received by patients with mental illness is often lower, but occasionally superior to that received by individuals who have no comparable mental disorder.
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Breast cancer screening in women with mental illness: comparative meta-analysis of mammography uptake
Alex J. Mitchell,Isabel Espirito Santo Pereira,Motahare Yadegarfar,Shingai Pepereke,Vongai Mugadza,Brendon Stubbs +5 more
TL;DR: Rates of mammography screening are lower in women with mental illness, particularly women with SMI, and this is not explained by the presence of emotional distress, clearly extend into preventive population screening.
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Outcome of depression in later life in primary care: longitudinal cohort study with three years’ follow-up
TL;DR: Using readily available prognostic factors (for example, severity of the index episode, a family history of depression, and functional decline) could help direct treatment to those at highest risk of a poor prognosis.
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Health Service Utilization and Costs of Depressive Symptoms in Late Life - A Systematic Review
Melanie Luppa,Claudia Sikorski,Tom Motzek,Alexander Konnopka,Hans-Helmut König,Steffi G. Riedel-Heller +5 more
TL;DR: Analysis of research literature regarding health service use and costs of depressive symptoms in late life showed homogeneously that depressive elderly individuals have an increased service use compared to non-depressive, and a one-third increase of outpatient, inpatient, and total healthcare cost of depressive individuals.
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Association between forgone care and household income among the elderly in five Western European countries – analyses based on survey data from the SHARE-study
TL;DR: Forgone care should be reduced even if it is not justified by an 'objective' need for health care, as it could be an independent stressor in its own right, and as patient satisfaction is a strong predictor of compliance.
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Review of community prevalence of depression in later life.
TL;DR: A systematic review of community-based studies of the prevalence of depression in later life (55+) found consistent evidence for higher prevalence rates for women and among older people living under adverse socio-economic circumstances.
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Depressive symptoms in relation to physical health and functioning in the elderly
Lisa F. Berkman,Cathy S. Berkman,Stanislav V. Kasl,Daniel H. Freeman,Linda Leo,Adrian M. Ostfeld,Joan Cornoni-Huntley,Jacob A. Brody +7 more
TL;DR: The authors conclude that physical disabilities among the elderly do not appear to be a major threat to the validity of the CES-D scale and that the strong associations between physical and mental health should be rigorously investigated.
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Development of the EURO-D scale--a European, Union initiative to compare symptoms of depression in 14 European centres.
Martin Prince,Friedel M. Reischies,Aartjan T.F. Beekman,R. Fuhrer,C. Jonker,S. L. Kivela,Brian A. Lawlor,Antonio Lobo,H. Magnusson,Manfred M. Fichter,H. Van Oyen,Marc Roelands,Ingmar Skoog,Cesare Turrina,John R. M. Copeland +14 more
TL;DR: A two-factor solution seemed appropriate: depression, tearfulness and wishing to die loaded on the first factor (affective suffering), and loss of interest, poor concentration and lack of enjoyment on the second (motivation).
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Psychiatric morbidity, service use, and need for care in the general population: results of The Netherlands Mental Health Survey and Incidence Study.
Rob V. Bijl,Anneloes Ravelli +1 more
TL;DR: The role of general medical practitioners in treating persons with psychiatric disorders is more limited than was anticipated and patients in categories associated with extensive use of professional care are more likely to have unmet care needs.
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Consequences of major and minor depression in later life: A study of disability, well-being and service utilization
TL;DR: Both major and minor depression are consequential for well-being and disability, supporting efforts to improve the recognition and treatment in primary care and underscoring the importance of recognition.