Mental health awareness is a relatively new phenomenon that began in recent generations. For many people, the time period they grew up in did not promote mental health awareness and issues like depression were not taken seriously. D you believe that the possibility of developing depression at an early age, specifically in a time period when mental health awareness was almost nonexistent for some, contributes to the high rates of elderly depression we see today? Why or why not?
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I think the high rates at which we increasingly recognize geriatric depression can also be accounted by the fact that mental health is taken more seriously in society today. I do think developing depression at an early age may have a correlation, but more often than not, geriatric depression develops due to factors related to aging. Many elderly develop depression when they are older because they feel more lonely, helpless, bored, or sick as they transition to retirement and as they watch some of their close friends or family members pass.