Depressive symptoms across the age span: findings from an integrated epilepsy self-management clinical studies dataset.

Epilepsy has been reported by the CDC to have a prevalence of 1.2% in the United States, which accounts for roughly 3.4 million adults in 2015. Nearly 1 million of those adults are aged 55 or older.1 Epilepsy is more likely to develop in older adults because risk factors for epilepsy are more common as people age including stroke/cardiovascular disease, neurodegenerative disorders, brain tumor and long-term sequelae of alcohol abuse.2 As our population ages, there will be even more older people with epilepsy.

Source: The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry - February 28, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Zaira Khalid, Hasina Momotaz, Kristen Cassidy, Naomi Chaytor, Robert Fraser, Mary Janevic, Barbara Jobst, Erica Johnson, Peter Scal, Tanya Spruill, Martha Sajatovic Tags: Poster Number: EI - 9 Source Type: research