The Tormented Soul: Caring for Older Adults with Depression in Home Healthcare.

Q3 Nursing

Home healthcare now Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-03 DOI:10.1097/NHH.0000000000001325

Karen Hellwig

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Abstract

This article explores depression in older adults, addressing types of depression, risk factors, signs and symptoms, prevention strategies, treatments, and the critical role of home care clinicians. It concludes with a discussion on the tragic issue of suicide among older adults, including its risk factors, prevention, and management.

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受折磨的灵魂：在家庭保健中照顾患有抑郁症的老年人。

本文探讨了老年人抑郁症，涉及抑郁症的类型、风险因素、体征和症状、预防策略、治疗方法以及家庭护理临床医生的关键作用。文章最后讨论了老年人自杀这一悲剧性问题，包括其风险因素、预防和处理。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

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来源期刊

Home healthcare now Medicine-Medicine (all)

CiteScore

0.70

自引率

0.00%

发文量

203

期刊介绍： Home Healthcare Now is the professional, contemporary journal serving the educational and communication needs of home care and hospice nurses. The journal is highly interactive and timely, focusing on the multidimensional, interdisciplinary and specialty practice areas of home care nursing. Clinical, operational, and educational home care nursing issues are the core of the publication; plentiful columns and features focus on practical, up-to-date approaches to everyday situations, as well as analysis and interpretation of how healthcare trends affect the home care nurse''s practice.