Table of Contents

Physical Illness and Depression in Older Adults.- Physical Illness and Depression in Older Adults.- Risk Factors.- Depression and Disability.- Vascular Disease and Depression.- Pain, Functional Disability, and Depressed Affect.- The Role of Everyday Events in Depressive Symptoms for Older Adults.- Caregiving and Detrimental Mental and Physical Health Outcomes.- Conditioning Variables and Outcomes.- Depression, Immune Function, and Health in Older Adults.- Quality of Life, Depression, and End-of-Life Attitudes and Behaviors.- The Activity Restriction Model of Depressed Affect.- We Should Measure Change-and Here’s How.- Diagnosis and Treatment.- Depression and Physical Illness in Older Primary Care Patients.- The Relationship of Major Depressive Disorder to Alzheimer’s Disease.- Pharmacotherapy of Geriatric Depression.- A Hope-based Group Treatment for Depressed Older Adult Outpatients.- Complex Unity and Tolerable Uncertainty.- Summary.- Physical lllness and Depression in Elderly Adults.