Depression
- Early depression diagnosis crucial for nursing home residents, study finds
- Nursing homes confront new challenges with younger residents
- Nursing home resident ‘quiet time’
- Study: Tai chi a useful depression fighter
- Antidepressants can boost stroke recovery outcomes
- Falling risk for residents increases after antidepressant changes, study shows
- Dose changes may spur falls
- Current generation of antidepressants increases health risks for elderly, study finds
- Survey shows seniors desire companionship at mealtime
- LTC residents at a higher risk of suffering anorexia of aging - McKnight's Long Term Care News
- Post-stroke screens needed
- Study: Race guides depression diagnosis
- Symptoms of depression in hospital nurses are greater than in the general population
- Depression linked to higher emergency admissions for elderly men
- Shingles vaccine offers 'poor protection' for seniors with untreated depression, study finds
- More active treatment of depression in older women needed, researchers say
- Tips for managing bereavement
- Loneliness has major impact on mortality, function decline
- Two new good-mood payoffs: memories, decisions improve
- Depressed, lonely seniors are more likely to get C. diff, researchers find
- Residents suffer and die as interventions go unused
- Challenges Associated With Managing Suicide Risk in Long-Term Care Facilities
- Reducing learned helplessness in LTC
- Suicide risk in LTC: Effective protocols may not be what you think
- Depression Tied to Hospital-Acquired Infection
- Suicide threats counteracted
- Reducing depression through person-centered care
- Serving sorbet before nursing home meals improves food intake, researchers find
- Listening to religious music can improve mental health in older adults
- Using the Internet to reduce depression
- Battling depression: Advice on how to make seniors feel valued by others
- The Eldercare Method: Using psychology for positive outcomes
- Depression in the Elderly Linked to Alzheimer’s Risk
- Residents with dementia may benefit from light treatment
- Those with Parkinson's get several benefits from walking: study
- Elderly with complicated grief benefit from targeted program, study says
- Grief could weaken seniors' immune systems, study finds
- Researchers recommend attacking loneliness to lower seniors' costs, doctor visits
- Depression Can Double Risk for Stroke—Even When It’s Treated
- Happy mind could lead to healthy heart
- Study finds 'substantial' risk of suicide among LTC residents, cites staff influence
- Loneliness cure: involve, don't 'distract'
- Depression - AND its treatments - are fall risks
- Mental health needs
- Study: Depression lowers COPD medication compliance
- Antidepressants carry much higher fall risk than antipsychotics, study finds
- Prevalence of mental disorders in seniors higher than thought
- Antidepressants interrupt seniors' sleep, may raise dementia risk
- Suicide prevention in older adults
- Antidepressant use and risk of hip fractures among community-dwelling persons with and without Alzheimer's disease
- After Stroke, 'Blue' Light May Help Beat the Blues
- Study: Activity engagement helps SNF residents flourish
- Post-surgical healing slowed by mental health challenges
- Loneliness in seniors: A medical problem this provider thinks it can solve
- Loneliness is bad for your health. This new campaign aims to curb isolation
- Depression and Heart Disease
- Clinical and financial ramifications of undiagnosed depression in SNFs
- Older adults under-referred for mental health therapies
- Apathy in nursing home residents linked with increased mortality risk, study shows
- Common drugs hike death risks by 31%
- Who's thriving? Here's the shopping list for it
- Psychotherapy creates meaningful identity for the LTC resident
- Even small rise in activity brings big impact on seniors' disability risk, study finds
- Older People May Be More Prone to Reveal Suicidal Thoughts
- Evaluation and treatment of depression may reverse memory and cognitive difficulties
- Combating seniors’ isolation
- Fix behavioral health: study
- Vision loss shown to trigger seniors’ anxiety, depression
- iPad-like technology helping elders and disabled connect
- Having a Sense of Purpose May Add Years to Your Life
- Enhancing resident independence
- Give nursing home residents with poor mental health jobs mentoring peers to improve their own health, researchers say
- Reducing Loneliness and Depression: The Power of Peer Mentoring in Long-term Care
- How to apply the best antidepressant — other residents
- The Minister for Loneliness in LTC
- Robotic pets helping to curb loneliness amid pandemic
- 4 ways that older people can bolster or improve their mental health
- The cats’ meow: Robot pets ease depression
- Mental health, everywhere
- Study: Poorer physical health a sign of worsening depression in new nursing home residents
- Seniors’ loneliness increased in face of social distancing, U.K. study finds
- Mindfulness-based stress reduction safe, effective for anxiety disorders
- Depression may raise dementia risk, large study shows
- Study: Isometric exercises may be optimal for lowering high BP
- Lack of purpose in life linked to cognitive decline, study finds