An expert on depression spoke to members of the Neurological Support Group to inform them about the mental disorder and its effects on seniors at the group’s meeting on March 1 in the Laguna Woods Community Center.
“Depression is not a normal part of aging, because it’s just not,” said Dr. Timothy Yu, a depression researcher at Irvine Clinical Research. “Depression also looks different in older people.”
Older adults might not have feelings of sadness, Yu said, but can still have depression with other symptoms such as agitation, anxiety and loss of motivation. Depression symptoms are present in 15 percent of older adults, he said, and are up to three times higher for women than men.
The next Neurological Support Group meeting will be April 5.
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