Functional disability and neuroticism as predictors of late-life depression

The authors investigated the association of premorbidly-assessed disability and neuroticism with the onset of late-life depression in 86 depressed and 72 randomly selected control persons, originating front a 1993 Dutch commu nity, study, of elderly, people, Compared with elderly people with average levels of disability, and neuroticism, people with low, levels were signifi cantly less likely, to develop a depressive disorder High scorers, on the o ther hand, did not differ significantly,front the average group. Furthermor e, the data tend to suggest that the increased risk for depression associat ed with disability was larger for patients with higher levels of neuroticis m.