Aging & mental health
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Aging & mental health · Nov 2010
Depressive symptoms are associated with hospitalization, but not with mortality in the elderly: a population-based study.
Subjects with depression might request more healthcare services. The aim of this study was to evaluate the association of depressive symptoms with hospitalization and mortality rates in a general unselected older population. ⋯ Depressive symptoms are not associated with increased mortality rates in general older populations. However, depressive symptoms represent a potentially reversible determinant of increased hospitalization rates in these subjects, independent of the presence and severity of other medical conditions.