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
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elationship 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.
Arising the phenomenon of the dependency ratio and its effect
on ageing health expenditure, making us to analyze this phenomenon
through searching for dependency ratios and their effect on ageing health
expenditure.
Objective :Study the effect of dependency ratio changes on ageing health
expenditure in Jordan till 2050.
This research aimed to know the level of a sense of loneliness among the elderly
residents in social care homes, and to know the differences in the degree of loneliness
between males and females, as it aimed to detect the differences in the sense o
f loneliness
depending on the variables; of social situation, and age. In This research it is used
Loneliness scale of preparation by the researcher. The researcher extracted the validity and
reliability for the scale of Loneliness. The scale is applied in social care homes in the cities
of Latakia and Tartous. The sample consisted of (32) elderly 12 males and 20 female. The
research is found the following results:
The level of a sense of loneliness is average, and there is no statistically significant
differences in the sense of loneliness between males and females, as too there are no
statistically significant differences in the sense of loneliness depending on the variables of
the age for the research sample, and there are statistically significant differences in the
sense of loneliness depending on the variables of the social situation.
