Abstract
The increasing of aging population has accompanied by increasing number of older people who are suffering from depressions as evidence by growing rate of incidence and prevalence. Therefore, this review aims to identify the recent findings on the factor associated with depression among older people in community dwelling. Several online databases such as Wiley Online Library, Springer Link, Science Direct and Pub Med were conducted using IIUM library database. A total of 49 articles were reviewed. The review revealed that depression among older people had various factor such as sociodemographic, poor outcome in health status, cognitive level, social support, physical performance, sleep quality, low level of loneliness and lack of spiritual support. Most of the study found all these factors were significant to depression among older people among community dwellings. Knowing these factors hinder its early diagnosis and getting early treatment to improve quality of life.
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