… from a home care agency serving 15 rural communities in … , while antidepressant medication
is an effective treatment for … treatment of depression in nursing home residents: A mental …

… depressed elderly patients instead of antidepressants. No population study on geriatric
depression … Of these, 176 resided in a nursing home or assisted living facility, and 2 were in the …

… In a second similar rural study taking place in Pennsylvania, Lassila found that 10.1% and …
with expensive nursing home care (Medicaid now supports 60% of all nursing home residents)…

… nursing facility organisational groups nominated facilities to … resident sample were prescribed
sedating antidepressants, … lower than those recommended for depression at night, which …

… residents were more likely to use antidepressants. Conclusions: Psychotropic drugs are
used by a majority of nursing home residents … Local health authorities throughout the country …

… for patients with mild to moderate severity depression. Many older patients need the same
doses of antidepressant medication that … Even patients in nursing homes may have a modest …

… episode of antidepressant treatment for depression. We first examine the characteristics of
patients who discontinued antidepressant treatment during the acute (0–30 days) phase of …

… for depression to match patients with and without depression. … In general, rural residents
are not more likely to be admitted … as severity of depression and therapy with antidepressants. …

… Residents identified as requiring antidepressant medication were prescribed a short-acting
selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI)—either paroxetine, 20 mg/day, or sertraline, 50 …

… for this investigation because its rural areas, although sparsely … We gathered antidepressant
drug use data as well as … all facility residents across a four-strata urban-rural classification …