The course of depression in late life: A longitudinal perspective

Depression in old age deserves special attention in view of the fact of progressive population ageing, because of the way in which depression and risk factors interact in this period of life and the particularly negative impact of late-life depression on health and quality of life. This editorial ai...

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Autores: De La Torre-Luque, Alejandro, Ayuso Mateos, José Luis
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repositorio:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Idioma:inglés
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https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S204579602000058X
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Palabra clave:Depression trajectories
late-life depression
loneliness
persistent depression
symptom approach
Medicina
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spelling The course of depression in late life: A longitudinal perspectiveDe La Torre-Luque, AlejandroAyuso Mateos, José LuisDepression trajectorieslate-life depressionlonelinesspersistent depressionsymptom approachMedicinaDepression in old age deserves special attention in view of the fact of progressive population ageing, because of the way in which depression and risk factors interact in this period of life and the particularly negative impact of late-life depression on health and quality of life. This editorial aims to provide some insight into longitudinal aspects of depression in old age. Depression may follow varying trajectories (e.g. episode emergence, recurrence) across the lifespan. Late-life depression is not an exception. A symptom-based approach is presented as an appropriate research method to study the predictors and course of affective syndromes in old age. Findings from our studies on depressive symptom trajectories in old age revealed that participants with a course of unremitting elevated symptoms showed the highest levels of loneliness across the trajectory groups and that participants with subclinical symptoms also showed higher levels of loneliness than their counterparts with a minimal-symptom course trajectory. This highlights the need to address loneliness as a way of dealing with depression in old age.This work was supported by the 5-year Ageing Trajectories of Health: Longitudinal Opportunities and Synergies (ATHLOS) project. The ATHLOS project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 635316; Instituto de Salud Carlos III-FIS under grant number PI16/00218; and Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM).Cambridge University PressDepartamento de PsiquiatríaFacultad de Medicina20202020-07-29research articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2df8fbb1VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10486/696286https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S204579602000058Xreponame:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAMinstname:Universidad Autónoma de MadridInglésengEuropean Commission http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000780 Horizon 2020 Framework Programme 635316.open accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/6962862026-06-23T12:46:27Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv The course of depression in late life: A longitudinal perspective
title The course of depression in late life: A longitudinal perspective
spellingShingle The course of depression in late life: A longitudinal perspective
De La Torre-Luque, Alejandro
Depression trajectories
late-life depression
loneliness
persistent depression
symptom approach
Medicina
title_short The course of depression in late life: A longitudinal perspective
title_full The course of depression in late life: A longitudinal perspective
title_fullStr The course of depression in late life: A longitudinal perspective
title_full_unstemmed The course of depression in late life: A longitudinal perspective
title_sort The course of depression in late life: A longitudinal perspective
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv De La Torre-Luque, Alejandro
Ayuso Mateos, José Luis
author De La Torre-Luque, Alejandro
author_facet De La Torre-Luque, Alejandro
Ayuso Mateos, José Luis
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author2 Ayuso Mateos, José Luis
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dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Departamento de Psiquiatría
Facultad de Medicina
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Depression trajectories
late-life depression
loneliness
persistent depression
symptom approach
Medicina
topic Depression trajectories
late-life depression
loneliness
persistent depression
symptom approach
Medicina
description Depression in old age deserves special attention in view of the fact of progressive population ageing, because of the way in which depression and risk factors interact in this period of life and the particularly negative impact of late-life depression on health and quality of life. This editorial aims to provide some insight into longitudinal aspects of depression in old age. Depression may follow varying trajectories (e.g. episode emergence, recurrence) across the lifespan. Late-life depression is not an exception. A symptom-based approach is presented as an appropriate research method to study the predictors and course of affective syndromes in old age. Findings from our studies on depressive symptom trajectories in old age revealed that participants with a course of unremitting elevated symptoms showed the highest levels of loneliness across the trajectory groups and that participants with subclinical symptoms also showed higher levels of loneliness than their counterparts with a minimal-symptom course trajectory. This highlights the need to address loneliness as a way of dealing with depression in old age.
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