Psychiatric disorders in elderly from the Indian sub-continent living in Bradford

Predictors of Depression in Aging South Asian Canadians

“…Physical health, social isolation, feelings of being a burden, the loss of self-respect, and dependency on others were reported to be the main factors of depression in the Parkinson disease patients (Gupta and Bhatia 2000). Family break-up and social isolation were considered to be the factors of depression among the South Asian elderly in Bradford, UK (Bhatnagar and Frank 1997). Whereas, a study in East London (Silveira and Ebrahim 1998) found inadequate housing, low social support, health problems, income of the household, and low English language literacy, to be the main factors of depression among Bengali immigrants.…”

“…Silveira and Ebrahim (1998) found that 77% of the Bengali participants were in the depressed range (score of 6+) on the Symptoms of Anxiety and Depression (SAD) Scale, while 25% of both Somalis and Whites were in the same range. In another study in Bradford, UK, 20% of the elderly South Asians reported being depressed (Bhatnagar and Frank 1997). Research conducted in the United States (Diwan et al 2004) used two samples of South Asian older adults: English speaking and non-English speaking.…”

“…PsychInfo, AARP Ageline, AMED, CINAHL, Medline) by the authors found no published research on depression of South Asian Canadian older adults. A few related research studies that could be located were mostly done in the United Kingdom (Bhatnagar and Frank 1997;Guglani et al 2000;Lindesay and Jagger 1997;Ebrahim 1995, 1998), the United States (Diwan et al 2004), or India (Ganguli et al 1999;Patel and Prince 2001).…”

Assessment of dementia in ethnic minority patients in Europe: a European Alzheimer's Disease Consortium survey

“…Dementia in elderly ethnic minority populations is, however, still a relatively new phenomenon in most European countries and research in the area is limited. In Europe, research published in English is largely restricted to studies of Indian subcontinent and African Caribbean elders in the U.K. (McCracken et al, 1997;Bhatnagar and Frank, 1997;Lindesay et al, 1997a;1997b;Shah et al, 1998;Lindesay, 1998;Parker and Philp, 2004;Lawrence et al, 2008). Population-based studies from both the U.S.A. (Demirovic et al, 2003;Fitzpatrick et al, 2004) and the U.K. (McCracken et al, 1997;Livingston et al, 2001) have found a higher prevalence of dementia in some ethnic minorities compared to the background population, while other studies have found that ethnic minority patients and their carers are not utilizing dementia services to the same extent as others (Lindesay et al, 1997a;Janevic and Connell, 2001).…”

Is Mental Health a Burning Health Issue for Indian Elderly?

“…In some studies, prevalence of depression was common among urban elderly [7,13] while in some other studies rural elderly had relatively higher prevalence of depression [14,15]. To identify the socio-culturally specific characteristics of depressive symptoms, some studies have been conducted in the United Kingdom [16][17][18][19][20] and the United States [21]. These studies found age, illiteracy, abuse and neglect, family conflicts, social isolation, physical health, feeling of burden, the loss of self-respect, dependency on others, low social support, inadequate housing, insufficient income to be the predictors for depressive symptoms.…”