Author:
Maddux Rachel E.,Delrahim Katia K.,Rapaport Mark H.
Abstract
AbstractThis article reviews the impact of depressive and anxiety disorders on quality of life (QOL), disability, and economic burden in the lives of older individuals. Distinctions between the terms QOL, disability, and burden are important in understanding the extent of improvement needed in treatment for elderly patients with depression or anxiety. Treatment efforts should be extended to remediate not only signs and symptoms of psychiatric syndromes but QOL and disability as well; increased understanding toward this end is evolving, yet it is clear that these issues need to be the focus of more investigation.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Psychiatry and Mental health,Clinical Neurology
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