Feeling more down or depressed over time might make it harder for older adults in China to handle daily tasks like shopping or managing money — and struggling with those tasks might also make their...
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Feeling more down or depressed over time might make it harder for older adults in China to handle daily tasks like shopping or managing money — and struggling with those tasks might also make their...
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In a nationally representative cohort of adults aged 50 and above in China, higher levels of depressive symptoms are longitudinally associated with increased severity of instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) disability over time, and greater IADL disability is similarly associated with worsening depressive symptoms, indicating a bidirectional longitudinal association that persists across multiple years.
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Study: Bidirectional, longitudinal associations between depressive symptoms and IADL/ADL disability in older adults in China: a national cohort study
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