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:
This article is published in Journal of Affective Disorders.The article was published on 2008-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 57 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Breast cancer screening.read more
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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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Chronic medical illness, depression, and use of acute medical services among Medicare beneficiaries.
TL;DR: For elderly individuals with at least 1 chronic medical condition, the presence of a depressive syndrome increased the odds of acute medical service use, suggesting that improvements in clinical management, access to mental health services, and coordination of medical andmental health services could reduce utilization.
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A new comprehensive and international view on ageing: introducing the 'Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe'.
TL;DR: This paper introduces the ‘Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe’ (SHARE) to researchers on ageing and presents highlights from the three main research areas covered by SHARE, namely economics, sociology, and health.
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From silos to bridges: meeting the general health care needs of adults with severe mental illnesses.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss obstacles to clinical integration and propose strategies to address them and discuss the need for bridges between the mental health care sector (patients' health care home) and the general health care system.
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The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe
TL;DR: The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) as discussed by the authors is a baseline study that collects data on individual life circumstances of about 27,000 persons aged 50 and over in 11 European countries, ranging from Scandinavia across Western and Central Europe to the Mediterranean.
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A New Comprehensive and International View on Ageing: The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe
TL;DR: The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) as discussed by the authors is a baseline study that collects data on individual life circumstances of about 27,000 persons aged 50 and over in 11 European countries, ranging from Scandinavia across Western and Central Europe to the Mediterranean.