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DEPRESSION IN THE ELDERLY

that low albumin levels and anemia are associated with both depression and a failure to thrive. Cataldo (1993, pp. 89-91) reported that among institutionalized elderly persons an inverse relationship exists between a personality characterized as "hardy" and depression.

Kurlowicz (1994, pp. 124-136) confirmed high prevalence rates of major depression and appreciable symptoms in medically ill elderly persons. The study found that depression related to medical illness raised to potential for suicide. Among the many reasons why the suicide rate is so high for the elderly is the isolation and loneliness that leads to despair, also boredom, depression, uselessness, loss of loved ones, economic hardships, general feeling of unhappiness with life, and persons who suffer from a psychological affliction, from loss of purpose and a sense of meaningfulness after retirement and separation from family and friends. Additionally, suicide rates among the elderly may be higher than for other age groups because of a widening social acceptance of the concept of the rational suicide for those individuals in the advanced stages of terminal illnesses, with serious and incurable physical illnesses, and those experiencing debilitating pain, with no recourse for relief which would leave then as alert and viable human beings (Heidrich and D'Amico, 1993, pp. 11-21). In this context, many elderly persons have indicated clearly that they no longer want to be burdens, and want to end their lives with dignity and grace while they are still aware and alert human beings.

Dimond, Caserta, and Lund (1994, pp. 253-268) found that depression is a common outcome of spousal bereavement. Isolation and loneliness that leads to despair, also boredom, depression, uselessness, loss of loved ones, economic hardships, general feeling of unhappiness with life, and persons who suffer from a psychological affliction, from loss of purpose and a sense of meaningfulness afte...

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