Abstract
Eighty-six elderly depressed patients were followed up for two years. Twenty-nine (34 percent) displayed minor organic signs (partial disorientation to time and/or partial disorientation to place and/or mild impairment of registration or recent memory). Minor organic signs were associated with a significant reduction in discharge rate two years following admission in patients aged 70 years plus. Among those discharged, minor organic signs were associated with a significant decline in living arrangements two years following admission. Coincidentally, minor organic signs identified a group of elderly depressives characterized by older age, depressions of late onset, and few precipitating events.
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