Trajectories and determinants of functional limitations in late-life depression: A 2-year prospective cohort study
Conclusions1 in 5 depressed older patients have a course with functional recovery. Combining functional and symptomatic recovery points to a subgroup of older patients that might profit from more rigorous psychiatric treatment targeted at psychiatric comorbidity and a group of frail depressed older patients that might profit from integrated geriatric rehabilitation.
Source: European Psychiatry - Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
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