Clinical Trials
3 May 2013
Vol. 1 No. 3 (2007)
https://doi.org/10.4081/itjm.2007.3.45

Elderly, depression and suicide: focusing the problem (The way the geriatrician reads the PROSPECT study)

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Elderly, Depression, Suicide, Antidepressants, Assessment.
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A. Salsi
paola.granata@pagepress.org
BACKGROUND PROSPECT study involved people over 60 treated for depression state in a context of community primary care with collaborative care approach. Results confirmed effectiveness of treatment on suicidal ideation and on depressive symptoms so that also reduction in suicide risk is presumed.
DISCUSSION The protocol of the study and results are intriguing for the geriatrician. Nevertheless some aspects must be watched at as not exactly old-oriented. Mainly the need to ameliorate operative multidimensional assessment, the missing of attention to fall-risk when prescribing psychotropic drugs and, consequently, the lack of gerontologically correct analysis of benefit/risk ratio.

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Elderly, depression and suicide: focusing the problem (The way the geriatrician reads the PROSPECT study). (2013). Italian Journal of Medicine, 1(3), 45-48. https://doi.org/10.4081/itjm.2007.3.45

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