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Making Lifestyle Choices To Reduce Late-Life Depression Risk, Maria C. Norton, Elizabeth B. Fauth, Jessica Weyerman Jul 2017

Making Lifestyle Choices To Reduce Late-Life Depression Risk, Maria C. Norton, Elizabeth B. Fauth, Jessica Weyerman

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Depression is a complex condition involving insufficient levels of brain chemicals, life stressors, thought processes, behaviors, and coping mechanisms. Medications and counseling therapy are effective in treating depression, and research suggests that several lifestyle practices also help to protect us from depression, and speed up our recovery if we do experience it. These behaviors, such as being socially connected, eating healthy and exercising, cost little to nothing but can have profound benefits on our overall quality of life and help us to stay depression-free.


Late-Life Depression, Maria C. Norton, Elizabeth B. Fauth Aug 2016

Late-Life Depression, Maria C. Norton, Elizabeth B. Fauth

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This fact sheet describes late-life depression, including what it is, how common it is, risk factors, where to get help, treatments, suicide risks, and how depression relates to dementia.