Physical Illness and Depression in Older Adults A Handbook of Theory, Research, and Practice /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Williamson, Gail M. (Editor), Shaffer, David R. (Editor), Parmelee, Patricia A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2000.
• Series: The Plenum Series in Social/Clinical Psychology,
• Subjects: Psychology.; Public health.; Aging.; Clinical psychology.; Health psychology.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Clinical Psychology.; Personality and Social Psychology.; Health Psychology.; Public Health.
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Table of Contents:

• Physical Illness and Depression in Older Adults
• Physical Illness and Depression in Older Adults
• Risk Factors
• Depression and Disability
• Vascular Disease and Depression
• Pain, Functional Disability, and Depressed Affect
• The Role of Everyday Events in Depressive Symptoms for Older Adults
• Caregiving and Detrimental Mental and Physical Health Outcomes
• Conditioning Variables and Outcomes
• Depression, Immune Function, and Health in Older Adults
• Quality of Life, Depression, and End-of-Life Attitudes and Behaviors
• The Activity Restriction Model of Depressed Affect
• We Should Measure Change-and HereỚ"s How
• Diagnosis and Treatment
• Depression and Physical Illness in Older Primary Care Patients
• The Relationship of Major Depressive Disorder to AlzheimerỚ"s Disease
• Pharmacotherapy of Geriatric Depression
• A Hope-based Group Treatment for Depressed Older Adult Outpatients
• Complex Unity and Tolerable Uncertainty
• Summary
• Physical lllness and Depression in Elderly Adults.