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Depression in the Elderly

P. Runcan

1991.9.1NURSING CLINICS OF NORTH AMERICA

DOI: 10.1097/00000446-198512000-00019

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Diagnostic difficulties lie in distinguishing depression from organic brain syndromes, from so-called masked depressions and from normal grief reactions.

Abstract

treatable, and suicide rates are high among depressed elderly persons. Diagnostic difficulties lie in distinguishing depression from organic brain syndromes, from so-called masked depressions and from normal grief reactions. in

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RUNCAN, P. Depression in the elderly. NURSING CLINICS OF NORTH AMERICA, 1991, 159.