As a Gerontological Counselor the suggested DIE is suitable to be utilized with individuals in this age group dealing with the patients who belong to the aged community of our society. The proposed DIE is synchronized enough with this population area that counseling services can be taken into account for people about 65 years and older, who are retired from their professional responsibilities. The DIE’s reliability and validity for the resulted measures make it even more suitable to be used in the field of counseling. The disclaimers of the designed DIE are clear enough that the instrument is intended to enumerate individual levels of depression in a patient. The DIE is created by background understanding of different aspects of depression.
