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Major depression is more common in medically ill patients who are older than 70 years and hospitalized or institutionalized. Severe or chronic diseases associated with high rates of depression include stroke (30–60%), coronary heart disease (8–44%), cancer (1–40%), Parkinson's disease (40%), Alzheimer's disease (20–40%), and dementia ...
A follow-up of patients that had participated in multimodal rehabilitation has shown an improvement of exhaustion- and physical symptoms over the course of 18 months. Still, at the time of long term follow-up 7–10 years later, almost half of the participants experienced fatigue and a majority reported a lasting reduction in stress tolerance. [13]
Diseases and disorders GAD Generalized anxiety disorder: GAN Giant axonal neuropathy: GAS disease Group A Streptococcal disease: GAVE Gastric antral vascular ectasia (see Watermelon stomach) GBS Guillain–Barré syndrome: GBS disease Group B Streptococcal disease: GCE Glycine encephalopathy: GD Gestational diabetes: GERD Gastroesophageal ...
Alzheimer's disease is the most common type of dementia, accounting for 60-80 percent of dementia cases. The effects of Alzheimer's are subtle at first but worsen as time passes. A common early symptom relates to difficulty recalling events of the recent past. Numerous symptoms arise as the disease progresses.
Anhedonia is a diverse array of deficits in hedonic function, including reduced motivation or ability to experience pleasure. [1] While earlier definitions emphasized the inability to experience pleasure, anhedonia is currently used by researchers to refer to reduced motivation, reduced anticipatory pleasure (wanting), reduced consummatory pleasure (liking), and deficits in reinforcement learning.
[3] [4] Older people with certain medical conditions such as diabetes, heart disease and dementia, are also more likely to have frailty. [5] [6] In addition, adults living with frailty face more symptoms of anxiety and depression than those who do not. [7] Frailty is not an inevitable part of aging.
This allows ICF to be coded as fatigue or unspecified chronic fatigue, and help distinguish it from other forms of fatigue including cancer-related fatigue, chronic fatigue syndrome, fatigue due to depression, fatigue due to old age, weakness/asthenia, and in the ICD-10, also from fatigue lasting under 6 months.
The population of the world is aging at a rapid rate. Globally, those aged 60 years or over numbered 962 million in 2017, more than twice as large as the number of older persons in 1980. [2] The number of older persons is expected to double again by 2050, when it is projected to reach nearly 2.1 billion persons. [2]