Why: Depression is common in late life, effecting nearly five million of the 31 million Americans aged 65 and older. Both major and minor depression are reported in 13% of community dwelling older ...

A short form of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D Scale) [4] has been frequently used in national surveys ... in a sample of self-referred elders with depressive ...

sibelertan1965yahoo.com The objective of this study was to investigate reliability and validity of the self rated 30 item Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) in screening and diagnosis of depression in ...