What is true: late-life depression is…?
From the book – Chapter 31: Later-Life and Dementia-Related Care
The right answer
Treatable and often missed
The load of later life
Older adults (roughly sixty and above) may face: retirement and loss of work identity; bereavement; loneliness and isolation; chronic illness and pain; reduced mobility and independence; cognitive decline and dementia risk; ageism and marginalisation. These raise vulnerability to depression, anxiety, and cognitive disorders.
Read the full chapter – Chapter 31: Later-Life and Dementia-Related Care
Stories from real life
- Just Getting Old, Said the Family – Mr Hargreaves, seventy-two, had been a head teacher in Manchester. Since retiring two years ago and losing his wife last winter, he had stopped going to…
- Where Did I Put the Keys, Again? – Mrs Lakshmi, seventy-eight, lived with her son Arvind and his wife in Chennai. For the last year she had been repeating questions, leaving the gas on…
- The Carer Who Forgot Herself – Grace, fifty-eight, had cared for her husband Tom in Cork since his dementia diagnosis three years earlier. He no longer knew the day, woke at night,…
- The Empty Flat on Raja Street – Mr Fernandes, seventy, lived alone in Mumbai since his wife died and his children moved abroad. He ate lunch at a different tiffin place each day…
More on this topic: Ageing well, memory loss and dementia – caring for elders
More questions
- What is true: dementia is…?
- What is true: depression can…?
- What is true: ramesh’s family learned…?
- What is true: caregivers need…?
- Just Getting Old, Said the Family – what this story teaches, the signs and what to do
- Where Did I Put the Keys, Again? – what this story teaches, the signs and what to do
- The Carer Who Forgot Herself – what this story teaches, the signs and what to do
- The Empty Flat on Raja Street – what this story teaches, the signs and what to do
- When Dad Became Another Person – what this story teaches, the signs and what to do
- What can we learn from the story “Ramesh”?