Depression rating scales for detection of major depression in people with dementia

Abstract

Depression rating scales for detection of major depression in people with dementia.

Nonpharmacological Interventions to Improve Depression, Anxiety, and Quality of Life (QoL) in People With Dementia: An Overview of Systematic Reviews

“…For example, common symptoms of dementia such as apathy can mimic depression. 54 Focusing on common symptoms of anxiety such as concentration difficulties are not likely to discriminate well between anxious and nonanxious individuals with dementia. 55 People with dementia may also present difficulties communicating or remembering their symptoms, which can further complicate the identification of relevant symptoms.…”

“…55 People with dementia may also present difficulties communicating or remembering their symptoms, which can further complicate the identification of relevant symptoms. Therefore, the literature suggests using an assessment tool that is designed specifically to assess depression and anxiety in dementia and derives information from multiple resources including both the person with dementia and an informant 54,56 (eg, CSDD, Rating anxiety in Dementia scale). However, this was not always the case for primary studies included in the identified reviews.…”

Dementia: beyond disorders of mood

“…The Cornell Scale for Depression in Dementia (CSDD) (Alexopoulos, Abrams, Young, & Shamoian, 1988) is a well-regarded measure that attempts to address these concerns. Even so, it remains to be agreed as to what the CSDD is measuring (Barca et al, 2015;Kirkham et al, 2016). And despite these intended improvements, measures that attempt to separate mood from other experiences in dementia are not the most widely used (van der Linde et al, 2016).…”