The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Geriatric Psychiatry, 4th Edition Chapter 15. Mood Disorders Sections: Mood Disorders: Introduction, Epidemiology, Clinical Course, Etiology, Diagnosis and Differential Diagnosis of Late-Life Mood Disorders, Diagnostic Workup of the Depressed Older Adult, Treatment, Key Points, References, Suggested Readings. Topics Discussed: mood disorder. Excerpt: "Questions regarding depression in old age are frequently posed: Do persons become more depressed as they grow older? Does depression become more difficult to treat with increased age? Is depression more difficult to identify in the older adult? The answers to these questions rest in part with the definition of late-life depression. Depression in late life is not a unitary construct. Depending on how depression is defined, the answers to questions regarding late-life depression vary.Depression can be construed in at least three ways, each of which has clinical relevance for older adults. First, depression can be viewed as a unitary phenomenon, with the various manifestations of depression forming a continuum. Depression symptom checklists, such as the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D; Radloff 1977) and the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS; Yesavage et al. 1983), are useful in determining the degree to which an individual suffers from depression in late life...." The content above is only an excerpt. For full access subscribe now or log into your account below. You can also purchase 24- or 48-hour access; learn more Username: Password:     Athens Login FORGOT your subscriber username and/or password? Get a reminder via email: The email I registered with is:  Not a subscriber? Subscribe Today PsychiatryOnline is a powerful website that features DSM-IV-TR® and The American Journal of Psychiatry as the cornerstones of an unsurpassed collection of psychiatric references, including books, journals, and self-assessment tools. PsychiatryOnline’s innovative platform makes these resources easy and convenient to use, offering Precise and powerful searching across books and journals. Quick pathways to related material. Mobile access from any computer with a Web connection. Ability to download any book section to PDA. Links from bibliographic references to the full text of journal articles. References to material not located in the PsychiatryOnline collection lead you to PubMed. Learn more about PsychiatryOnline Need more help? PsychiatryOnline Customer Service may be reached by emailing PsychiatryOnline@psych.org or by calling 800-368-5777 (in the U.S.) or 703-907-7322 (outside the U.S.).