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RE: Healthy Ageing; Depression Among Elderly Population
Depression is now common among both the young and old this days. Most of the symptoms you listed are now found in young people.
In the case of the elderly, I think they also tend to crave for, sometimes "unnecessary " attention which we must try to understand what they are going through and how they feel.
A friend of mine complained to me recently that her dad keep wanting her to come see him despite her effort to satisfy him by sending money and making a trip down once in a month.
Even if the presentation of depression among elderly people were slightly different, the criteria listed in the DMS-V were still applicable to them. Like what I've said, people often mistake the sign of depression in elderly for a normal physiological change which could be caused by ageing, and that's why diagnosing depression is pretty difficult for a clinician. Regardless, what you have described as needing an unnecessary attention from their own kin were never have been one of the criteria for depression but if their request were not fulfilled, it can lead to depression.