Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-t5tsf Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-08T21:34:59.072Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

The Geriatric Depression Scale: feasibility of cardbased-administration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 June 2014

Desmond O'Neill*
Affiliation:
Consultant Physician, Department of Gerontology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Letters to the Editor
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2002

References

1.Burns, A, Lawlor, B, Craig, S: Rating Scales in Old Age Psychiatry. BJ Psych 180: 161167.2002.Google ScholarPubMed
2.Koenig, GH, Meador, KG, Cohen, HJ, Blazer, DG: Self-rated Depression Scales and Screening for Major Depression in the Older Hospitalised Patient with Medical Illness. JAGS 36:699706.1998.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
3.O'Riordan, T, Hayes, J, O'Neill, D, Walsh, JB, Coakley, D: The effect of mild to moderate dementia on the Geriatric Depression Scale and on the General Health Questionnaire in the hospitalised elderly, mt J Geriatr Psychiatr. 4,1721,1990.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
4.O'Neill, D, Rice, I, Blake, P, Walsh, JB, Coakley, D: The Geriatric Depression Scale: Rater Administered or Self Administered?: Int J Geriatr Psychiatr:7,511515.1992.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
5.Adshead, F, Cody, DD, Pitt, B: BASDEC: a novel screening instrument for depression in elderly medical inpatients. BMJ 1992;305,397.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed