Depressive symptoms in late life: associations with apathy, resilience and disability vary between young‐old and old‐old

Abstract

In elderly persons under age 80, resilience, apathy and disability all have relatively equal contributions to depression scores, whereas in those over age 80, depression is most highly correlated with apathy. These data suggest that depressive symptoms in elderly persons have different clinical features along the age spectrum from young-old to old-old.