Objective: The paper provides the first syllabus on the prevalence of mental disorders in old‐
age focusing on surveys conducted in the 15 countries, which comprised the 'old'European …

BackgroundExcept for dementia and depression, little is known about common mental
disorders in elderly people. AimsTo estimate current, 12-month and lifetime prevalence rates …

Objectives: To investigate the prevalence of depression among the oldest old and to analyze
factors associated with depression. Methods: A cross-sectional, population-based study was …

OBJECTIVE: To conduct a meta-analysis assessing the prevalence of mental disorders in
older people in Europe and North America. METHOD: Studies that reported prevalence …

Prevalence and incidence rates of dementia, and the relationship between these rates and
mortality, were explored in a longitudinal population-based study of individuals aged 8490 …

Key questions in the psychiatric understanding of elderly people are the development of
psychiatric morbidity, its phenomenology in old age, the differentiation between 'normal'and …

Objective: To describe methodological issues and possibilities in the epidemiology of old
age psychiatry using data from the H70 study in Göteborg, Sweden. Method: A …

BackgroundIt is not clear whether the prevalence of dementia and depression among the
elderly has changed during the past 30 years. MethodPopulation-based samples from …

Objective To estimate the prevalence of depression in a population-based sample of older
adults, and to identify the individual profile of people who received depression treatment …

Objectives To investigate the influence of country of residence on depression and well-being
among older Europeans, after establishing the between-country measurement invariance of …