Claire Ankuda
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first heard Jan 2020
last heard May 2020
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It's not clinical depression.
We weren't diagnosing depression.
We were looking at depressive symptoms.
There's been other work that shows that depressive symptoms are common at the end of life, but there's been very little work showing how they change the trajectories of these symptoms as people approach death.
and how these trajectories might vary based on what uh clinical condition you have, based on demographics, based on other factors.
Um so in this paper we tried to to measure what those trajectories were of depressive symptoms and what factors
uh and how the trajectories might look different for different people.
So we found that overall uh de depressive symptoms stay stable um until about three months before death.
And then they increase for the overall population.
Um, and they increase pretty dramatically to where about sixty percent of people in our study um had depressive symptoms.
in the last month of life.
Um now just going back to that point of how we found this, we took advantage of um a a survey that is done on uh a large population of of older events.
um called the HRS, the Health and Retirement Study.
So that survey is done every other year on a group of older adults as they age.
And some of them die.
And so it's the survey happens at the same time.
The so that the time between when the survey is done and death is random.
So over time it allows us to estimate, you know, what's happening to people who are
One month before death, two months before death, three months before death, just by the chance of where the survey catches them.
So that allowed us to track this.
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