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 Depression in later life is a challenging and rewarding
condition to treat.
Challenging because it often overlaps with
physical illness, which complicates the presentation and in turn is
often implicated in aetiology. Also, there is interplay with
cognitive impairment.
Rewarding because evidence-based treatment
brings encouraging outcomes.
Treatment is the main emphasis in this module
but we cover other relevant aspects to give a rounded
perspective. Some things you will learn about include:
- the nature and frequency of late-life depression
- why the presentation is often not straightforward and how to
improve recognition and detection of late-life depression
- the crucial interplay of depressive disorder in later life with
physical comorbidity and cognitive impairment
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