Age and ageing, 1993-03, Vol.22 (2), p.109-113
1993
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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Expressed Wish to Die and Mortality in Older People: A Community Replication
- Ist Teil von
- Age and ageing, 1993-03, Vol.22 (2), p.109-113
- Ort / Verlag
- Oxford: Oxford University Press
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 1993
- Quelle
- Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA)
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- Three-year mortality of 1063 community residents aged 65 and over interviewed with the Geriatric Mental State Schedule was analysed to examine the influence of specific depression symptoms and physical illness in order to test theoretical predictions from models proposed by Macdonald and Dunn, and by Jorm and colleagues. Expressed wish to die was confirmed as a predictor of mortality, controlling for age, sex, and cognitive impairment. The suggestion that the effect of depressive symptoms on mortality might be a masked effect of physical illness was not confii-rned. In general the more specific severe symptoms were better predictors of mortality.
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISSN: 0002-0729eISSN: 1468-2834DOI: 10.1093/ageing/22.2.109Titel-ID: cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_75665357
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- Aged, Attitude to Death, Biological and medical sciences, Cross-Sectional Studies, Death & dying, Dementia - diagnosis, Dementia - mortality, Dementia - psychology, Demographic aspects, Depression in old age, Depressive Disorder - diagnosis, Depressive Disorder - mortality, Depressive Disorder - psychology, Elderly, Elderly people, England - epidemiology, Expressed wish to die, Female, Geriatric depression, Geriatrics, Humans, Incidence, Liverpool, Male, Medical sciences, Mental depression, Mortality, Odds Ratio, Older people, Personality Inventory, Predictors, Psychological aspects, Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry, Psychopathology. Psychiatry, Sick Role