A Comparative Study of Depression in Elderly Institutional Residents and Elderly Home Residents

[...]elderly females reported higher depression in comparison to elderly male respondents. [...]findings indicate that the institutionalized elderly had moderate to severe levels of depression and that the elderly home residents had no to a mild mood disturbance. The majority of previous studies have focused on long-term health care, hospital settings and home healthcare programs (Almoajel et alia, 2016; Al-Surimi et alia, 2019) focusing on the quality of life of patients (Lang et alia, 2006). Depression has been assessed in elderly but that focused on elderly population accessed for health centres (Al-Shammari & Al-Subaie, 1999; Alabdulgader et alia, 2021; Alkhammash et alia, 2022). [...]the present study aimed to assess depression in elderly institutional residents and elderly home residents. To our knowledge, little work has been done to quantify the depression scores of elderlies in retirement or nursing homes and the elderly living at home. [...]the objective of this study was to compare the level of depression between home-residents elderly and institutionalized elderly.