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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Gureje, Oye

Titel

Late-life depression in socially and culturally diverse settings

Ist Teil von

• Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences, 2020-01, Vol.29, p.e168-e168, Article e168

Ort / Verlag

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

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Quelle

EZB-FREE-00999 freely available EZB journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Even though population ageing is a global phenomenon with projections indicating that the number of older persons will more than double over the next three decades, reaching over 1.5 billion persons in 2050, these diverse regions of the world will experience vastly different rates of growth (United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, 2020). [...]while SSA will see a growth rate of more than 218%, the projected growth of the elderly in Europe and North America will be a modest 48%. Specifically, the higher rates of depression in the LIMC may be the cumulative effect of several adverse social factors. [...]there is the possibility that another important factor could be poverty. In both groups, there is some evidence that cognitive reserve may be a protective factor. [...]while a lifetime of unskilled occupation was found to be a risk factor for depression in the ISA, the second editorial suggests that cognitive reserve may be a buffering agent against depression in this age period.