Elderly Depression Studies

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Indexed  November 20, 2011

Individuals who are age 70 or older and experiencing depression for the first time can derive long term benefits from continuing to take medicine after they feel better, according to a two-year study by the National Institute of Mental health (NIMH). The study states that continuing with the medicines gave them a 60% chance to not repeat the depression episode. The benefit of continuing, physicians agree starts from the point that the elderly patient is symptom free and extends to 6 or 12 months from that point with the benefits being that the patient will stay in remission. The same benefit according to psychiatrists exists for those elderly patients who have had 2 to 3 depression episodes as long as the medicine that worked for them is the same one that they ...   See the complete post here