Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Williamson, Gail M[Herausgeber]
• Shaffer, David R[Herausgeber]
• Parmelee, Patricia A[Herausgeber]

Titel

Physical Illness and Depression in Older Adults : A Handbook of Theory, Research, and Practice

Ist Teil von

• The Springer Series in Social Clinical Psychology

Ort / Verlag

Boston, MA : Springer US

Erscheinungsjahr

2000

Link zum Volltext

• Volltext

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Physical Illness and Depression in Older Adults -- Physical Illness and Depression in Older Adults -- Risk Factors -- Depression and Disability -- Vascular Disease and Depression -- Pain, Functional Disability, and Depressed Affect -- The Role of Everyday Events in Depressive Symptoms for Older Adults -- Caregiving and Detrimental Mental and Physical Health Outcomes -- Conditioning Variables and Outcomes -- Depression, Immune Function, and Health in Older Adults -- Quality of Life, Depression, and End-of-Life Attitudes and Behaviors -- The Activity Restriction Model of Depressed Affect -- We Should Measure Change-and Here’s How -- Diagnosis and Treatment -- Depression and Physical Illness in Older Primary Care Patients -- The Relationship of Major Depressive Disorder to Alzheimer’s Disease -- Pharmacotherapy of Geriatric Depression -- A Hope-based Group Treatment for Depressed Older Adult Outpatients -- Complex Unity and Tolerable Uncertainty -- Summary -- Physical lllness and D
• Aging is inevitable-A "psychological recession" is not . . . As I go about my daily life, I read and hear about the sometimes scary things that are happening to other people. As the saying goes, bad news sells newspapers. But I u- ally can take some solace in reasoning that this bad stuff assuredly will not occur in my life. After reading this book, however, one message has gotten through–I cannot d- miss "those" older people described in the various chapters as being dissimilar to me. After all, "old person" is a term that can be applied to me in a few more years. On this point, I once heard the following rhetorical question applied to the prejudice actions of the TV character Archie Bunker: "What would he say about "those" Puerto Ricans, if, on his next birthday, he knew that he would become a Puerto Rican?" As to aging, we best pay close attention because we soon will be "those" elders. This is why the alarming facts of this book-that our elders often are experiencing elevatedlevelsofphysicalillnessesanddepression–grabbedmebytheproverbialthroat