Centenarians ‘depression prone’ - BBC Health News 24th November 2008

It may bring a congratulatory telegram from the Queen but reaching 100 is no guarantee of a happy, contented, old age, US research suggests.

A study by researchers at Temple University in Philadelphia of 244 people aged 100 or over found one in four showed clear signs of depression.

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