Depression and its relationship with diabetes in elderly diabetics "A field study on a sample of the elderly living in Dar Alsaadah & AlKaramah" in Damascus

Depression is considered to be one of the most common mental disorders among the elderly, especially among those with chronic physical diseases in particular Diabetes. Therefore research problem was defined by the following question: What is the relationship between diabetes and depression in the elderly?, and have dealt with the research sample "elderly" residents in Dar Al-saadah and Al-karamah in Damascus. Research sample has reached the number of 40 of the elderly and consisted of 40 examined individuals aged over 60 years old. The researcher used the Depression Scale for the Elderly D.E.S in her current study which contains 80 phrases to measure the level of depression in the elderly. The study has revealed that the potential incidence with depression and the intensity of its symptoms increase when an elderly is diabetic compared with non-diabetic and vice versa, it also revealed that females have recorded higher levels of depression on the depression scale compared with males, it also showed that whenever there is a lower educational level among diabetics elderly the rate of the incidence with depression increases.