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Assessment Of Geriatric Depression: Construction Of A New Screening Inventory, Earl C. Thorndyke Iii
Assessment Of Geriatric Depression: Construction Of A New Screening Inventory, Earl C. Thorndyke Iii
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Geriatric depression is strongly associated with increased healthcare costs, poor treatment outcomes, and mortality. Existing measures of depression in this population do not adequately account for more recent literature describing the presentation of depressed older adults, and thus may result in the underdiagnosis of depression in this population. The current study consistent of the development of a new, updated measure and examined its psychometric properties and potential clinical utility for diagnosing depression in adults over the age of 65. Participants were be recruited from multiple sources, including a community population from residential retirement communities, as well as inpatients and outpatients …