News Depression and Mental Health News Blog Elderly benefit from depression maintenance therapy | Elderly benefit from depression maintenance therapy |
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Among elderly patients
who have recovered from an episode of major depression, maintenance
treatment with antidepressant drugs is superior to placebo in
preserving the improvements in health-related quality of life,
according to a recent report.
"Depression is one of the major causes of decline in the health-related quality of life (HR-QOL) of elderly persons," write Dr. Alexandre Y. Dombrovski and colleagues, in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. The researchers, from University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, examined the effectiveness of antidepressant maintenance therapy with paroxetine and interpersonal psychotherapy in retaining the gains in HR-QOL achieved during initial short-term treatment in patients 70 years or older with depression.
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