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Depression and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are the two commonest mental disorders in the elderly; coexistence of the two conditions might therefore be expected to be a not infrequent occurrence. Reifler et al.1 found that 31% of 131 AD patients met DSM-III criteria for major affective disorder; and Lazarus et al.2 scored 20% of 44 AD patients as 17 or above on the Hamilton Scale for Depression.
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Oppenheim, G. (1989). Diagnostic Criteria for Depression in Alzheimer’s Disease. In: Lerer, B., Gershon, S. (eds) New Directions in Affective Disorders. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3524-8_79
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