Depression Resources
Articles and Reports
- American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry: Publication page
- Beyond Diagnosis: Depression and Treatment
- Depression & Bipolar Support Alliance: Coping with Mood Changes Later in Life
- Depression and Older Adults
- Finding a Mental Health Professional: A Personal Guide
- Institute of Medicine Reducing Suicide: A National Imperative
- Mental Health & Aging: The Challenge Confronting America’s Families and Senior Citizens
- National Institute of Mental Health: Depression
- National Institute of Mental Health: Depression
- National Institute on Aging: Depression: Don’t Let the Blues Hang Around
- National Mental Health Association: Mental Health and You Stigma: Awareness and Understanding of Mental Illness
- Older Adults: Depression and Suicide Facts
- Suicide Prevention and Mood Disorders
- Assessing and Treating Late-Life Depression Karel, Michele J., Suzann Ogland-Hand, Margaret Gatz. Basic Books, 2002
- Depression in Late Life Blazer, Dan G. Springer Publishing Company, Inc., 2002
- Depression in the Elderly: A Multimedia Sourcebook, Vol. 36 Miletich, John J. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc, 1997
- Depression: The Mood Disease Mondimore, Francis Mark, MD. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990 (revised 1993)
- Depressive Illness: An Information Guide Bartha, Christina, Christina Parker, Cathy Thomson, Kate Kitchen. Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 47 pages, 1999
- Elder Suicide: Research, theory and treatment McIntosh, John. American Psychological Association, 1994
- Elder Suicide: Research, theory and treatment McIntosh, John L., Santos, John F., Hubbard, Richard W., Overholser, James C. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association, 1994
- Handbook of Mental Health and Aging Cohen, Gene (Ed) with Barry Lebowitz, Mary Wykle, Nancy R. Hooyman, and James E. Birren, Eds. Elsevier Science & Technology Books, 1992
- How to Cope with Depression DePaulo, J. Raymond, Jr. and Ablow, Keith Richard, MD. New York: Ballantine Books, 1989
- Overcoming Depression Papolos, Demitri F., MD and Papoloa, Janice. New York: Harper Collins, revised edition, 1997
- Share the Care Caposella, Cappy and Sheila Warnock. (Link to book from Children of Aging Parents website: www.caps4caregivers.org
- Suicide in Later Life Osgood, N. Lexington, 1992
- Suicide over the life cycle: Risk factors, assessment, and treatment of suicidal patients Blumenthal, Susan and Kupfer, David (Eds.) Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press, 1990
- Understanding Depression DePaulo, J. Raymond, Jr. and Leslie Ann Horvitz. Wiley, 2002
- Chronic Pain, Depression, Antidepressants: Issues and Relationships
- Depression Caused by Chronic Pain
- Depression Research at the National Institute of Mental Health(NIMH)
- American Family Physician: Diagnosis and Management of Depression
- Major Depressive Disorder: Diagnostic Questions
- America Psychiatric Association
1000 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 1825
Arlington, VA, 22209
- American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry (AAGP)
7910 Woodmont Avenue, Suite 1050
Bethesda, MD, 20814-3004
Fax: (301) 654-4137
- American Association of Suicidology (AAS)
4201 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 408
Washington, DC, 20008
- American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP)
International Headquarters: 120 Wall Street, 22nd Floor
New York, NY, 10005
Toll free: (888) 333-AFSP
Fax: (212) 363-6237
- American Psychological Association
750 First Street, NE
Washington, DC, 20002-4242
Fax: (202) 336-5797
- Center for Mental Health Services
5600 Fishers Lane, Room 15-99
Rockville, MD, 20857
Fax: (301) 443-5592
- Children of Aging Parents
1609 Woodbourne Road, Suite 302A
Levittown, PA, 19057-1511
- Depression & Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA)
730 N. Franklin Street- #501
Chicago, IL, 60610-7224
Fax: (312) 642-7243
- Depression and Related Affective Disorders Association (DRADA)
2330 West Joppa Road, Suite 100
Lutherville, MD, 21093
- Families for Depression Awareness
Families for Depression Awareness
Watertown, MA, 02472-4808
Fax: (617) 924-9192
- Families for Depression Awareness
690 Market Street, Suite 600
San Francisco, CA, 94104 - National Alliance for Caregiving
4720 Montgomery Lane, 5th Floor
Bethesda, MD, 20814 - National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI)
Colonial Place Three 2107 Wilson Blvd., Suite 300
Arlington, VA, 22201
Toll free: (703) 524-7600
- National Association of Psychiatric Health Systems
325 Seventh Street, NW, Suite 625
Washington, DC, 20004-2802
Fax: (202) 783-6041
- National Education Association Health Information Network
1201 16th Street, NW, Suite 521
325 Seventh Street, NW, Suite 625, DC, 20036
- National Foundation for Depressive Illness, Inc.
P.O. Box 2557
New York, NY, 10016
Toll free: (800) 239-1265
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
6001 Executive Boulevard Room 8184, MSC 9663
Bethesda, MD, 20892-9663
Toll free: (866) 615-NIMH
Fax: (301) 443-4279
- National Mental Health Association
2001 N. Beauregard Street 12th Floor
Alexandria, VA, 22311
Toll free: (703) 684-7722
- National Women’s Health Resource Center
1750 New York Avenue, NW
New Brunswick, NJ, 08901
- Older Women’s League (OWL)
1750 New York Avenue, NW 1750 New York Avenue, NW
Washington, DC, 20006
Toll free: (800) 825-3695
Fax: (202) 628-0458
- Screening for Mental Health, Inc.
One Washington Street, Suite 304
Wellesley Hills, MA, 02481
Fax: (781) 431-7447
- Suicide Awareness Voices of Education (SAVE)
7317 Cahill Road, Suite 207
Minneapolis, MN, 55439-2080
- Suicide Prevention Advocacy Network
1025 Vermont Avenue, NW, Suite 1200
Washington, DC, 20005
- Well Spouse Foundation
63 W. Main Street, Suite H
Freehold, NJ, 07728
- Administration on Aging: Elder Abuse Prevention
- Elder Abuse and Neglect
- Children of Aging Parents
- Family Caregiver Alliance
- National Alliance for Caregiving
- National Family Caregivers Association
- Well Spouse Foundation
- Late Life Depression: A Fact Sheet
- National Institute of Health Case Study on Elder Depression
- NIH News: Gene More Than Doubles Risk of Depression Following Life Stressesm
- Psychiatric Times Article on Depression
- AARP: Grief & Loss Articles
- Medline
- Depression In Men
- American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry (AAGP)
- American Psychiatric Association
- American Psychological Association
- Center for Mental Health Services
- Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA)
- Depression and Related Affective Disorders Association (DRADA)
- National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI)
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
- National Mental Health Association
- Administration on Aging: Elder Abuse Prevention
- Alcoholism in the Elderly
- Bipolar Disorder and Alcoholism
- Chronic illness or pain
- Chronic illness or pain
- Depression & Substance Abuse
- Grief and loss
- National Institute of Health Case Study on Elder Depression
- Psychiatric Times Article on Depression
- Alcoholism in the Elderly
- Bipolar Disorder and Alcoholism
- Depression & Substance Abuse
- American Association of Suicidology
- Center for Elderly Suicide Prevention and Grief Counseling
- Elderly Health Services
- KBHC Kristin Brooks Hope Center, National Hopeline Network
- National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
- National Strategy for Suicide Prevention
- SAVE, Suicide Awareness Voices of America
- SPAN, Suicide Prevention Action Network
- Suicide and Crisis Helplines around the World
- Suicide Hotlines.com
- Suicide Prevention and Mood Disorders
- Suicide Prevention Services, Inc.
- Families for Depression Awareness
- Antidepressant Medications and Psychotherapies (NIMH)
- Antidepressant Medications and Psychotherapies: NIH
- Depression Management
- Electroconvulsive therapy: ECT.org
- Electroconvulsive therapy: Medhelp
- Electroconvulsive therapy: NIH
- A story of bipolar disorder (manic-depressive illness): Does this sound like you?
- Depression Research at the National Institute of Mental Health
- Disorder Information Sheet - Major Depressive Episode
- National Mental Health Association - Dysthymia
- Older Adults: Depression and Suicide Facts
- Depression: What Every Woman Should Know