JUNIOR, José Antônio Spencer Hartmann    GOMES, Giliane Cordeiro. Depression in institutionalized elderly: the singularities of grief seen in its diversity. []. , 17, 2, pp.83-105. ISSN 1516-0858.

One of the major mistakes in the elderly care is to think that the depression is a normal or predictable with the aging. This results in partial diagnoses and high rates of depressive patients in the reality of long-term care facilities for the elderly. This discussion has as objective to understand the singularities of senile depression in institutional scope. The study shows qualitatively by a randomly tracking in theoretical databases. The exclusion and inclusion criteria to the researches are articles published between 1984 and 2012. The aging experience is a phenomenon with biological and social factors, and the senile depression is result of the way as they live these factors.

: Ageing; Depression; Long Term Care Facility.

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