Depression in Later Life

by Robert Baldwin and Robert C. Baldwin

Depression affects between 10-15% of older people, making it the most frequently encountered mental health condition in later life. Despite this, the condition is easily missed in clinical practice or not adequately treated. Part of the Oxford Psychiatry Library, this second edition of Depression in Later Life highlights areas of depression which are of special relevance to later life, how to diagnose depression in an older person, the overlap with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019967163X
• ISBN13: 9780199671632
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 7.6"