Twenty-Year Depressive Trajectories Among Older Women

Context

Despite the frequent occurrence of depressive symptoms among older adults, especially women, little is known about the long-term course of late-life depressive symptoms.

Objective

To characterize the natural course of depressive symptoms among older women (from the young old to the oldest old) followed up for almost 20 years.

Design

Using latent-class growth-curve analysis, we analyzed women enrolled in an ongoing...