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.
This study deals with the most important problems related to the age of aging,
especially the social - psychological ones, which appear little by little as the age of man,
and from the increase in this segment on the one hand, and then seek to help
the elderly
and solve their problems on the other hand. This study deals with several aspects: First: the
concept of aging, its limits, its manifestations, second: the fertility that characterizes this
stage, the social problems of the elderly, the psychological problems of the elderly,
Problems of older persons. In conclusion, they made several proposals in order to
contribute to the goal of the study to focus attention on the elderly and to understand their
various problems in order to move towards solving them.
