Mental health in the elderly is a topic that draws a lot of research interest.
However, researchers call depression in old age a "scientific myth," for lack of
conclusive findings. While some researchers have found that depression is
highest among the oldest people. Others found the opposite. To understand
this scientific myth, researchers argue that people of different age groups are
usually exposed to different stressors, thus controlling for different stressors
will lead to different answers. However, there are situations when all age
groups are facing the same stressor. For example, wars,...