Citation

Joo J. Int. Psychogeriatr. 2017; 29(6): e883.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,School of Medicine,Johns Hopkins University,Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center,5300 Alpha Commons Drive,Room 427,Baltimore,MD,USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Cambridge University Press)

DOI

10.1017/S1041610217000497

PMID

28482942

Abstract

The deleterious impact of depression on quality of life as well as mortality through suicide and worsening medical comorbidity is well known. Impairment and disability associated with depression is significant and equal to that attributable to cardiovascular disease and greater than that due to other chronic physical disorders, such as hypertension, diabetes, and arthritis (Wells et al., 1989). Depression impacts not only the individual life of the patient but affects the health of society.

Language: en