The depressed old person may have:
Clinical features are similar to depression in younger patients but the presentation is more variable in old age than in youth, and can range from a floridly delusional picture to an illness that is very hard to distinguish from 'understandable' unhappiness in the setting of physical ill health or emotional loss.
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