Figure 1. Percentage of elderly residents with diagnosed depressed, by long-term care facility: United States, 2011-2012.
1Nursing Homes double the percentage for home health agencies and residential care communities.
The risk of clinical depression and depression symptoms proposes a threat to residents’ quality of life, activities of daily living, independence, and involvement within the nursing home or assisted living facility or their lives.12 Depression is a natural response for many older adults when they have experience intense stress and anxiety in their lives, such as death of a spouse and/or other family members, loss of a sense of self-worth, relinquishment of cherished possessions, or loss of one’s physical fitness.13 It is also …show more content…
Articles must be dated 2010 to 2018, written in English only, and peer-reviewed, however, articles included could be based in the United State or a non-U.S country. Articles must be topic focused on members of the elderly population, including men and/or women 65 years of age and older. Articles included in this study were required to contain information about long-term care facilities including the following: nursing homes and assisted living facilities. In order for articles to be included relating to home health agencies, hospice, or adult day care service centers, they had to include nursing home or assisted living facility, as well. All participants had to be human subjects. Articles were excluded if they were published before 2010, lacked peer review, focused on or included patients under the age of 65, presenting depression in a facility other than a nursing homes or assisted living facilities. If articles or studies were specified to only home health agencies, hospice, or adult day care service centers they were exempted. Studies were also excluded if they did not include an outcome, result, or interventions. Meta-analyses and literature reviews were automatically eliminated from …show more content…
Each of the seven studies is a randomized control trial or a quasi-experiment design study with the primary topic of depression in elderly long term care residents impacted by an intervention. All the studies used in this analysis gave recognition to margin of error in their results and considered other factors that may have altered the end results of the study.
1Nursing Homes double the percentage for home health agencies and residential care communities.
The risk of clinical depression and depression symptoms proposes a threat to residents’ quality of life, activities of daily living, independence, and involvement within the nursing home or assisted living facility or their lives.12 Depression is a natural response for many older adults when they have experience intense stress and anxiety in their lives, such as death of a spouse and/or other family members, loss of a sense of self-worth, relinquishment of cherished possessions, or loss of one’s physical fitness.13 It is also …show more content…
Articles must be dated 2010 to 2018, written in English only, and peer-reviewed, however, articles included could be based in the United State or a non-U.S country. Articles must be topic focused on members of the elderly population, including men and/or women 65 years of age and older. Articles included in this study were required to contain information about long-term care facilities including the following: nursing homes and assisted living facilities. In order for articles to be included relating to home health agencies, hospice, or adult day care service centers, they had to include nursing home or assisted living facility, as well. All participants had to be human subjects. Articles were excluded if they were published before 2010, lacked peer review, focused on or included patients under the age of 65, presenting depression in a facility other than a nursing homes or assisted living facilities. If articles or studies were specified to only home health agencies, hospice, or adult day care service centers they were exempted. Studies were also excluded if they did not include an outcome, result, or interventions. Meta-analyses and literature reviews were automatically eliminated from …show more content…
Each of the seven studies is a randomized control trial or a quasi-experiment design study with the primary topic of depression in elderly long term care residents impacted by an intervention. All the studies used in this analysis gave recognition to margin of error in their results and considered other factors that may have altered the end results of the study.