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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Depressive symptoms and metabolic syndrome: selective association in older women.
Alice Laudisio,Emanuele Marzetti,Francesco Pagano,Gino Pozzi,Roberto Bernabei,Giuseppe Zuccalà +5 more
TL;DR: Metabolic syndrome is independently associated with depressive symptoms in community-dwelling older women and older women with depression should be prompted to undergo screening for MetS.
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Unmet needs of outpatients with late-life depression; a comparison of patient, staff and carer perceptions.
TL;DR: Practitioners should be aware of the negative impact of depression severity on reaching agreement regarding unmet needs and its possible consequences for mutual goal setting and compliance in home dwelling older patients with major depressive disorder.
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Primary care and healthcare utilization among older Brazilians (ELSI-Brazil)
James Macinko,Fabíola Bof de Andrade,Paulo Roberto Borges de Souza Júnior,Maria Fernanda Lima-Costa +3 more
TL;DR: By international standards, access to basic healthcare among older Brazilians is relatively high, Nevertheless, different levels of primary care problems between the public and private sectors and resulting utilization patterns suggest the need to continue working to close remaining gaps.
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Forgone health care due to cost among older adults in European countries and in Israel
Howard Litwin,Eliyahu V. Sapir +1 more
TL;DR: The results showed that forgone health care due to cost occurs among a substantial minority of older adults, and relinquished care is associated with younger old age, greater health needs and perceived economic inadequacy.
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Course of depressive symptoms and associated factors in people aged 65+ in Europe: A two-year follow-up.
Josep Lluís Conde-Sala,Josep Garre-Olmo,Laia Calvó-Perxas,Oriol Turró-Garriga,Joan Vilalta-Franch +4 more
TL;DR: In countries of eastern and southern Europe the most important predictors were female gender and impairment in ADL, and Poorer self-rated health and older age were more relevant in the Northern countries, and chronic diseases were a key factor in the Continental region.
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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
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