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Depression in the elderly / by Patricia-Luciana Runcan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Runcan, Patricia-Luciana, 1977- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Depression in old age.
- Older people--Mental health.
- Older people.
- Older people--Psychology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (221 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Depression in the Elderly examines theoretical aspects of depression, its symptoms and risk factors, ageing, old age and the elderly, the families of depressed old people, and practical aspects resulting from quantitative and qualitative research on a significant sample of old people from the point of view of the main psycho-social factors involved in depression in the elderly: sudden retirement, losses (of the partner, of the adult child, of social status, of health), poverty, loneliness, an.
- Contents:
- Intro
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- LIST OF TABLES
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- FOREWORD
- PART ONE
- CHAPTER ONE
- CHAPTER TWO
- CHAPTER THREE
- CHAPTER FOUR
- PART TWO
- CHAPTER FIVE
- CHAPTER SIX
- CHAPTER SEVEN
- REFERENCES
- INTERNATIONAL PEER-REVIEW FOR THIS VOLUME.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-206).
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4438-6866-3
- OCLC:
- 892799053
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