[45] The TCAs are effective agents in depression in the geriatric population with a long record of success. Nortriptyline is the best tolerated ... TCA therapy in the elderly, and anticholinergic ...

The Geriatric Depression Scale has been the best validated among the elderly; however, it may not useful in the moderately to severely cognitively impaired elderly, and there has been little ...

Both Julia and Al sought help from their doctors, and each was diagnosed with depression, a disorder that's as common in the elderly as it is in younger people. And both, fortunately, were ...