The Challenge of Depression in Late Life

Saccadic Eye Movements in Depressed Elderly Patients

“…In the Stroop test, inhibition corresponds to both the interference (the mechanism that prevents irrelevant information entered in memory) and inhibition (active suppression process). Several studies using different tasks to assess the inhibition showed that the correlations between the scores of these tasks were low or nonexistent [52], [53]. Several studies have reported a link between cognitive impairment and an inhibition deficit in depression [54]–[56] associated with pre-frontal cortex dysfunctions [57], [58], especially when executive functions were scrutinized [59], [60].…”

Depression in Late-Life: A Focus on Prevention

“…However, another approach would be to identify at-risk seniors in primary care settings using an indicated prevention strategy. Focusing on primary care recognizes that most older adults with subsyndromal depressive symptoms do see their primary care providers (PCPs)(16); indeed, most seniors who die by suicide have been seen in primary care within a month of their death(17). Accordingly, efforts to improve detection and treatment of late-life depression have focused attention on primary care settings(18).…”

Bringing psychotherapy to primary care: Innovations and challenges.

“…Strosahl describes such changes as a reengineering of the health care system (p. 165). Gallo and Coyne (2000), like Strosahl, caution that specialty mental health providers cannot expect to import their work wholesale without modifications into the primary care setting, and that merely locating mental health providers in primary care may be overly simplistic. In recent years, the innovative efforts of researchers from both primary care and mental health disciplines have begun to establish an evidence base for psychosocial interventions that are workable within the constraints of primary care settings.…”