The gender difference in depression: are elderly women at greater risk for depression than elderly men?

JS Girgus, K Yang, CV Ferri - Geriatrics, 2017 - mdpi.com
Numerous epidemiological reports have found that adolescent, young adult, and middle-
aged adult girls and women are more likely to be diagnosed with unipolar depression and …

Machine-learning-aided self-powered assistive physical therapy devices

X Xiao, Y Fang, X Xiao, J Xu, J Chen - ACS nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
An expanding elderly population and people with disabilities pose considerable challenges
to the current healthcare system. As a practical technology that integrates systems and …

Triple jeopardy: disabled people and the COVID-19 pandemic

T Shakespeare, F Ndagire, QE Seketi - The Lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
People with disabilities have been differentially affected by COVID-19 because of three
factors: the increased risk of poor outcomes from the disease itself, reduced access to …

Association of late-life depression with cognitive impairment: evidence from a cross-sectional study among older adults in India

T Muhammad, T Meher - BMC geriatrics, 2021 - Springer
Background Late-life depression (LLD) is considered as a prodrome to dementia and plays
a major role in the development of long-term cognitive disabilities. We aimed to estimate the …

Impact of post-COVID conditions on mental health: a cross-sectional study in Japan and Sweden

K Matsumoto, S Hamatani, E Shimizu, A Käll… - BMC psychiatry, 2022 - Springer
Background Due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, people have
undermined their mental health. It has been reported that post-COVID conditions at a certain …

Social media usage, social support, intergenerational relationships, and depressive symptoms among older adults

HY Wu, AF Chiou - Geriatric Nursing, 2020 - Elsevier
Many older adults are unable to use social media, which may affect their social support and
intergenerational relationships and cause depression. To examine this impact on older …

Social support moderates the association of functional difficulty with major depression among community-dwelling older adults: evidence from LASI, 2017–18

T Muhammad, P Maurya - BMC psychiatry, 2022 - Springer
Background This study aimed to examine the potential independent association of functional
disability with major depression and moderating effects of social support variables including …

Design and experimental evaluation of a low cost, portable, 3-dof wrist rehabilitation robot with high physical human–robot interaction

U Mayetin, S Kucuk - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 2022 - Springer
The success of the physical therapy and rehabilitation depends on mostly the continuity of
the exercises. The best way to ensure this continuity is to perform the exercises at home …

Time from COVID-19 shutdown, gender-based violence exposure, and mental health outcomes among a state representative sample of California residents

A Raj, NE Johns, KM Barker, JG Silverman - EClinicalMedicine, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background There is increasing evidence of the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
and resultant shutdowns on mental health. This issue may be of particular concern to those …

Age-period-cohort analysis of depression trends: are depressive symptoms increasing across generations in Germany?

J Beller - European journal of ageing, 2022 - Springer
Several studies have examined trends in depression, but only few have explicitly considered
possible generational differences. I examined changes in the burden of depressive …