We’ve probably all heard about the loneliness pandemic in media reports. We hear about the national mental health crisis too. No one is free from risks to our mental health, though clearly some do ...

A large international study has found that when older adults have both physical frailty and depression, their risk of developing dementia rises sharply. The researchers believe that these two ...

Concurrent physical frailty and depression likely boost the risk of dementia in older people, with the interaction of these ...

Your golden years are meant to be just that—golden. For many people, they are. Depression rates among people 60 and older hover at just under 6%, which is lower than the population as a whole. However ...

Karin de Punder, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria, has conducted research on how chronic stress accelerates the aging of the immune system and its ...

Quality of Life Research, Vol. 30, No. 3 (March 2021), pp. 721-728 (8 pages) Purpose At present, it is not clear about the influence of health-promoting lifestyle, aging perceptions, social support, ...

Recent findings from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have uncovered an alarming connection between depression and driving safety among older adults. The comprehensive study, ...

As a psychiatrist who focuses on an older population, there is one thing I share with every client: Depression is not a normal part of the aging process, but it is something that older adults do go ...

“When I was in my twenties everyone I knew was in psychotherapy, now everyone I know is in physical therapy.” – 70 year-old woman “When I was in my twenties most of my friends were getting married; ...