What happens to anxiety disorders in later life?
Anxiety disorders decline in prevalence with advancing age but remain more common than depressive disorders. They are often of late-onset and there is frequent comorbidity with depressive disorders and physical illness. While anxiety disorders in older people are likely to respond to the same non-ph...
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| description | Anxiety disorders decline in prevalence with advancing age but remain more common than depressive disorders. They are often of late-onset and there is frequent comorbidity with depressive disorders and physical illness. While anxiety disorders in older people are likely to respond to the same non-pharmacological interventions that have been shown to work in younger people, there is currently little formal evidence of this. Although there is some evidence that the non-benzodiazepine anxiolytic medication, buspirone, is effective against late life anxiety symptoms, clinical trials in older people with rigorously diagnosed anxiety disorders are needed. An anxiety scale with demonstrated reliability and validity in older people is needed for screening for pathological anxiety and for measuring change in older patients undergoing treatment for anxiety disorders. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ee98e03a9e82463889c8c15736fe92b12022-12-22T02:06:10ZengAssociação Brasileira de Psiquiatria (ABP)Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry1809-452X2002-04-0124suppl 1748010.1590/S1516-44462002000500014S1516-44462002000500014What happens to anxiety disorders in later life?Gerard JA Byrne0University of QueenslandAnxiety disorders decline in prevalence with advancing age but remain more common than depressive disorders. They are often of late-onset and there is frequent comorbidity with depressive disorders and physical illness. While anxiety disorders in older people are likely to respond to the same non-pharmacological interventions that have been shown to work in younger people, there is currently little formal evidence of this. Although there is some evidence that the non-benzodiazepine anxiolytic medication, buspirone, is effective against late life anxiety symptoms, clinical trials in older people with rigorously diagnosed anxiety disorders are needed. An anxiety scale with demonstrated reliability and validity in older people is needed for screening for pathological anxiety and for measuring change in older patients undergoing treatment for anxiety disorders.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-44462002000500014&lng=en&tlng=enAnsiedadeTranstornos da ansiedadeIdosoPânicoAgorafobiaFobia socialTerapêuticaAdministração de casoComorbilidade |
| spellingShingle | Gerard JA Byrne What happens to anxiety disorders in later life? Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry Ansiedade Transtornos da ansiedade Idoso Pânico Agorafobia Fobia social Terapêutica Administração de caso Comorbilidade |
| title | What happens to anxiety disorders in later life? |
| title_full | What happens to anxiety disorders in later life? |
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| title_short | What happens to anxiety disorders in later life? |
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| topic | Ansiedade Transtornos da ansiedade Idoso Pânico Agorafobia Fobia social Terapêutica Administração de caso Comorbilidade |
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