Depression In Older Adults

Life depression at later age is an important public health issue because of its devastating effects. It is integrated with risk of suicide, decreased physical, morbidity, social and cognitive functioning all of which are in turn associated with increased loss of life (Abas et al, 2003). Depression appears to be less frequent among older adults than earlier in the lifetime. Risk, protective factors, presentation, etiology, and outcomes all represent aspects of the older adult's condition in the lifespan. . The impact of depression on older people is entirely different from younger people. However effective treatment of depressed older adults, it often occurs with other medical illnesses and disabilities and it doubles an elderly person's risk of cardiac problems and increases their risk of death from this illness. Many research studies shown that the presence of depression increases the chances of death and depression reduces an elderly person's

According to Beck, depressive always thinking about negative feelings about everything. They tend to take things personally and believe that no hope for future. Beck believes, these inferior mindset lead to more negative life experiences for the depressive. In turn, the depressive develops more inferiority complex (Schwartz & Schwartz, 1993). They expect too much from themselves and they believe that there is nothing he or she can do about it and very hopeless about the future (Papalia & Olds, 1988).They learned to be helpless all through life. They believed that no matter how much they tried to run away from the problems but it were still going to be present (Comer, 1992). Substantial research evidences show that depression has a tendency to run in families and researchers run an experiment on twins and have found the likelihood to be 85 percent both twins will develop bipolar depression if at least one has it (Schwartz & Schwartz,