Late-Life Depression: The Disease Easily Mistaken for "Normal Aging"
Let’s start with the most important thing: depression in older adults often doesn’t look like “depression." They might not cry or say they’re sad. Instead, it turns into aches and pains all over, poor appetite, bad sleep, and a lack of energy for everything. And so it’s very easy for the whole family (sometimes even physicians) to write it off as “that’s just what happens when you get old,” and quietly miss it. ...