Depression and older people : towards securing well-being in later life /
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| Author / Creator: | Godfrey, Mary, 1954- |
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| Imprint: | Bristol, UK : Policy Press in association with Help the Aged, 2004. |
| Description: | viii, 53 p. ; 30 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5788722 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Introduction
- Background
- Approach
- Structure
- 1. Later life with depression: nature and prevalence
- Depression and older people
- Prevalence
- Summary
- 2. The experience of depression
- User perspectives
- The experience of care giving
- Summary
- 3. Risk and vulnerability
- A framework for understanding risk
- Background risk factors
- Stressors
- Protective vulnerability factors
- Summary
- 4. Accessing help from primary and community care
- Key challenges
- Primary care: getting through the gate
- Accessing help
- Barriers to access
- Community and residential settings: problems of access, treatment and support
- Summary
- 5. Models of treatment and care in later-life depression
- Key issues
- Treating later-life depression
- Specialist mental health services for older people
- Summary
- 6. Securing well-being in older age
- Developing a strategy to secure well-being
- Key elements in well-being
- Addressing threats to well-being
- Developing a preventative approach
- 7. Summary and conclusions
- Nature and scale of later-life depression
- The experience of the illness
- Risk and vulnerability
- Service delivery and practice
- From treating depression to supporting well-being
- References
- Appendix A. Search strategy
- Appendix B. Longitudinal studies on ageing
- Appendix C. A framework of risk and protective factors in securing quality in ageing
