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- Title
Treating depressed older adults in primary care: narrowing the gap between efficacy and effectiveness.
- Authors
Unützer, J; Katon, W; Sullivan, M; Miranda, J
- Abstract
There is a gap between the efficacy of treatments for late-life depression under research conditions and the effectiveness of treatments as they occur in the "real world" of primary care. Considerable evidence supports the efficacy of treatments for late-life depression, but many depressed older adults either are not recognized or do not receive effective treatment for depression in primary care. Older adults face a range of special treatment barriers: knowledge deficits; losses and social isolation; multiple medical problems; and lack of financial resources. More research is needed to understand these barriers and to study the effectiveness of multifaceted, population-based disease management interventions for late-life depression in primary care.
- Publication
The Milbank quarterly, 1999, Vol 77, Issue 2, p225
- ISSN
0887-378X
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1111/1468-0009.00132