Prevalence and correlates of depressive symptoms in a catchment-area based cohort of older community-living schizophrenia patients

The high rate of depressive symptoms in this epidemiological sample of older schizophrenia patients confirms that these symptoms frequently accompany this severe mental illness in late life. With physical and social factors as important predictors of depressive symptoms, risk factors for depression are more comparable between older schizophrenia patients and their age peers than is often assumed.