Prevention of Late-Life Depression: Current Clinical Challenges and Priorities (Aging Medicine Book 9)

This book illustrates the imperative for late-life depression prevention, introducing a broad range of approaches to prevention and provides detailed examples of clinical applications of late-life depression prevention – all with consideration of medical and scientific, social, economic and global health perspectives. Clear guidelines are delineated for assessing, treating and preventing such conditions as depression and anxiety, dementia, psychosis and mania, sleep disturbances and personality disorders. Written by experts in the field, this text considers the complicating conditions that depression may incur higher costs and create during the course and treatment of comorbid major medical conditions that are also highly prevalent in older adults – including diabetes, hypertension and heart disease. __Prevention of Late-Life Depression: Current Clinical Challenges and Priorities__ is an important new volume that will be useful to all providers that are concerned with the mental health of our rapidly expanding aged population. This book illustrates the imperative for late-life depression prevention. It introduces a broad range of approaches to prevention, and provides detailed examples of clinical and research applications of late-life depression prevention ? all with consideration of medical and scientific, social, economic and global health perspectives. Current guidelines and tools for assessing depressive disorders among older adults are discussed, with a view toward applications for prevention. Written by experts in the field, this text also considers policy and economic implications for preventing late-life depression, such as the many complicating conditions ? such as diabetes, hypertension or heart disease ? that may co-occur with depression among older adults and that may incur higher total healthcare costs. Prevention of Late-Life Depression: Current Clinical Challenges and Priorities is an important new volume that will be useful to all providers that are concerned with the mental health of our rapidly expanding aged population Front Matter....Pages i-x Prevention of Major Depression: A Global Priority....Pages 1-4 The Framework for Prevention....Pages 5-18 Social and Behavioral Risk Factors for Late-Life Depression....Pages 19-32 Prevention of Depression in Medical Conditions....Pages 33-56 Vascular Depression and the Role of Neuroimaging and Biomarkers....Pages 57-82 Measurement and Assessment in Late-Life Depression....Pages 83-98 Indicated Prevention....Pages 99-112 Selective and Universal Prevention of Late-Life Depression....Pages 113-133 Health Policy and Economic Aspects of Late-Life Depression Prevention....Pages 135-152 Depression Among Blacks During Late Life: Examining Within-Group Variations....Pages 153-170 Global Priorities and Possibilities....Pages 171-183 Back Matter....Pages 185-191 Olivia I. Okereke, Editor. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Mode Of Access: World Wide Web.