Incidence of depression among community‐dwelling older adults: A systematic review

We aimed to synthesise information related to the incidence of depression and depressive symptoms (DDS) in a community‐dwelling older adult population at a global level. In this systematic review, we included articles with a cohort study design that evaluated the incidence of depression or depressive symptoms in older adults aged 60 years or more in a community‐dwelling environment. Six databases were used: Web of Science, PubMed, Scopus, LILACS, SciELO, and Cochrane, and the entire selection process was independently performed by peers. We divided the included articles into subgroups according to the DDS assessment instrument: (i) Geriatric Depression Scale; (ii) Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale; (iii) miscellaneous scales; and (iv) diagnostic interviews. Each cumulative incidence value obtained per item was adjusted for a 1‐year follow‐up period, which generated an annual cumulative incidence (AcI). From 46 articles, 42 used scales to evaluate the depressive variable, with an AcI estimate of around 4.5%. The articles that assessed depression categorically observed a variation in AcI between 0.2% and 7.0%. Among all the materials included, the group that used the Geriatric Depression Scale observed the lowest and the highest AcI, 1.3% and 26.6% respectively. Most of the productions were from countries in the Asian continent (52.2%), followed by Europe (30.4%), the Americas (13%), and Oceania (4.4%). Despite the variation of AcI, we found a frequent occurrence of DDS in older adults in the community‐dwelling environment, which highlights the need for preventive actions and better‐targeted early care, especially in terms of primary health care.


INTRODUCTION
Projections reveal that between the years 2019 and 2050, the number of older adults aged 65 years and over will double on a global level. 1 This demographic trend signals new challenges for societies, which leverages the need for greater knowledge about entities or characteristics associated with human ageing.
Depression among older adults has peculiar characteristics, as it involves different impacts when compared to that of adults.While depression in adults is associated with disability, 2 in older adults it is related to the loss of years lived with quality, 3 mortality from all causes, 4 besides being a central element that can link diseases, poor healthy behaviours, and psychological conditions. 5n a recent systematic review on the theme of depression in older adults, the authors sought to evaluate risk and protective factors for depression.They identified a major heterogeneity among the included studies but concluded that limitations and damages related to mobility, instrumental activities of daily living, visual acuity, as well as chronic diseases, and difficulties initiating sleep, were presented as risk factors for depression in the older adult population. 6n another systematic review, this time investigating depression in people 50 years old and over, the authors identified five risk factors, in brief: bereavement, sleep disturbances, disabilities, history of previous depression, and female gender. 7Twenty years on from this review, it appears that variables such as quality of life and loneliness may play an important role in the development of depression in older adults. 8,9egarding what is known about the incidence, in a systematic review, after the inclusion of 20 articles in which adults were 70 years old or more, the authors observed a variation in the incidence values according to the classification of the depressive spectrum.Thus, for 'major depression', the incidence ranged from 1.7% to 7.6%, while for 'depressive symptoms', the upper limit of total incidence ranged from 19% to 22%. 10 The context in which older adults live can also provide specific information about the factors associated with mental illness.The depression of communitydwelling older adults may have a worse prognosis, since in addition to the fluctuating character of depression due to possible relapses, there is a tendency to chronicity. 11Although there is a possibility of a better quality of life for community-dwelling older adults when compared to those who live in institutions, 12 this is probably an under-treated group.Knowledge is still scarce and with controversial characteristics, despite the studies carried out. 13n this sense, the objective of this study was to synthesise information related to the incidence of depression and depressive symptoms in the world population, specifically among community-dwelling older adults.

METHODS
This study is a systematic review with initial registration in PROSPERO (International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews) under number CRD42019121616.As a reference for this paper, we used the updated version of the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses) 2020 Statement. 14

Eligibility criteria
Articles in which samples were composed of older adults aged 60 years or more, who lived in a housing arrangement related to maximum independence and self-determination of these older adults, that is, who were not institutionalised or hospitalised, were included in this review.
This review considered articles with observational and longitudinal study designs in its decision process, since they allow the assessment of cumulative incidence and incidence ratio values.
In addition to the age, setting, and study designs mentioned, there was no restriction on the language used or the publication period.To make the included studies less heterogeneous, we excluded from this systematic review articles in which the depressive variable was related to bipolar depression or depression with psychotic symptoms; studies that investigated as predictive variables chemical, molecular or blood elements; studies that evaluated groups of older adults with specific diseases or that were part of specific clinical populations; studies in which the exposure variable was associated with natural disasters or catastrophes; and finally, studies that did not perform a longitudinal assessment, even if there was a follow-up in more than one moment of a trajectory.Furthermore, materials corresponding to grey literature and where it was not possible to access the written material, were also excluded.

Information sources and the selection process
Six health-related databases were searched: Web of Science, PubMed, Scopus, LILACS (Latin-American and Caribbean Literature on Health Sciences), SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online), and Cochrane.We chose to associate controlled and uncontrolled terms, obtaining an equation that was individualised using the characteristics of each database.This was exposed in a publication about the protocol of this systematic review. 15We obtained materials that were published by December 31, 2020.
Before the beginning of the process itself, weekly or biweekly virtual meetings were established among the members of the author team in order to standardise, train, and make adjustments.The process of screening the articles to be included in this review was manual, peer-reviewed, and independent by following these stages: reading of titles and abstracts, full texts, extraction of results, evaluation of the quality of each included article, collection of titles from the reference list of included articles.For each pair of authors, a third member participated to dispel disagreements, or if this was not possible, the pair of authors should reach a consensus decision, given the eligibility criteria.It was only possible to use this process because all 10 authors participated in this review at various stages.
Because no filters were used in the search strategy, such as types of documents, language, and types of studies, some materials from the grey literature were found, such as doctoral theses or abstracts published in conference annals.These had to be excluded due to the large number of materials that went into the full-text selection.Conference abstract publications did not provide the necessary methodological details, or enough results for extraction, which caused their exclusion, even after contacting the authors via electronic mail, since no response was obtained.For this manuscript, articles that did not provide the incidence of depressive symptoms or depression were excluded.

Data extraction
After concluding the study selection process, the articles to be extracted were evenly divided among eight authors, meaning that four pairs were working independently (LE and HA, AA and DB, MT and JJ, MO and DL).By the end of a certain given period, each pair was to reach a consensus.Adjustment meetings were necessary in order to standardise results.The topics extracted for each included article were: main author, year, name of the study the article was part of, study design, follow-up time, population context, inclusion and exclusion criteria, sample size (considering losses and final sample), baseline characteristics (percentage of female gender and measures of central tendency for age), variables used to collect outcome data and cutoff point, and finally, incidencerelated information.
The values of cumulative incidence or incidence ratio were directly obtained from the articles, from the description of the results or arranged in tables.For articles that did not directly bring these values, they were obtained by calculations performed by the authors themselves.

Bias assessment of included articles
The risk of bias in all studies included in this systematic review was assessed using the Quality Assessment Tool for Observational Cohort and Cross-Sectional Studies (https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health-topics/study-quality-assessment-tools).This is a 14-item checklist for observational studies, including cohort studies.For each item, the evaluators should identify the fulfilment in 'yes', 'no' and 'other' (cannot be determined; not applicable; not reported), and at the end, the number of 'yes' responses was quantified for each article.Six authors from the team (LE and AA; MT and JJ; MO and DL) participated in this evaluation process and in a paired and independent way reached a consensus thereafter.
For each study, we decided to quantify the points included in a final score, and for each item, we classified them as: yes, no, not reported, unclear, not applicable, and cannot be determined.This step was also performed in a paired manner and with the consensus of each pair of evaluators.It is noteworthy that this classification is important because it directs the evaluators to essential concepts related to internal validity, which includes items for potential risk of selection bias, information bias, and confounding bias.Therefore, we did not use the critical appraisal with the intent of making a summary judgement of the quality of each study.
For some items, the authors pre-established criteria based on what the checklist provides as general guidelines.This is because even with the explanations provided by the checklist, there could be dissonance between the evaluators.In this sense, the directions for the items are as follows: 7 (as there is no accuracy in the literature, a minimum follow-up period of 6 months was established to be considered 'yes'), 8 (when some variables have validated instruments and cutoff points, but others do not, we considered 'no' -'yes' would be for when all variables were validated), 14 (we chose 'yes' for when the adjustment was made at least for gender and age and at least another variable).

Treatment and synthesis of included data
The method for the synthesis of the extracted data was only possible after completing the extraction and critical evaluation steps of each article, due to a large number of articles likely to be included throughout the process.Thus, we chose to analyze the cumulative incidence (cI) results in a way that decreased the heterogeneity from a theoretical point of view, according to the instrument used to obtain incidence, as well as from the evaluation of the internal validity of each article.When incidence data were not found, the value was obtained by calculating the ratio between the number of new cases by the total number of participants at risk of having depression.
From this, we analyzed the cI of each article by the ratio between the number of events over the total number of the sample at risk (older adults without depressive symptoms or depression at baseline).As there was variation in the follow-up time between studies, the cI was adjusted to the time, dividing it by the number of years of follow-up, which resulted in the value of an annual percentage represented here by the annual cI (AcI).These data were displayed through bar graphs.Since the objective of this review is the synthesis of data regarding the incidence of depressive symptoms/depression, the articles that did not bring the number of events (for calculation) or the value of cumulative incidence were excluded from the synthesis of frequency.

RESULTS
From the 17 336 documents found with the search strategy described for all six databases, we included 46 articles for extraction and quality assessment.It can be seen in the flowchart (Fig. 1) that after the exclusion of duplicate materials, 10 888 documents were filtered out through paired reading of titles and abstracts, of which 10 875 did not meet the eligibility criteria.
Among the 753 articles, two had to be excluded due to restricted access to Chinese platforms; the remainder was divided between six authors (MY, AP, DB, HA, LE, AA).This was followed by the exclusion of 693 articles for not being in accordance with the eligibility criteria, 10 did not respond to the objective of the article.Therefore, 46 articles were obtained.

AcI
From the 46 articles included in this systematic review, we found that 181 719 older adults aged 60 years and over participated in the totality of the studies, among which a total of 24 948 were considered as incident cases of depression over time.
We obtained AcI data for each of the studies; however, it was not possible to use a measure of central tendency to characterise all of the included articles' incidence results.This is due to the heterogeneity of the included studies, revealed for example by the high amplitude (25.3) among the AcI values.
In order to better understand the data obtained, the articles were grouped according to the instruments used to evaluate the depressive variable: (i) Geriatric Depression Scale-GDS; (ii) Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale-CES-D; (iii) miscellaneous scales; and (iv) diagnostic instruments.In this sense, the first three subgroups present incidence results in a screening perspective when considering dimensionality, while the fourth subgroup used categorisation through diagnostic interviews.The median AcI of the first three subgroups was 4.5% (interquartile range (IQR) q1-q3: 3.5%-6.2%),whereas the median AcI (for major depression) of the fourth subgroup was 3.9% (IQR q1-q3: 0.8-6.6).
Based on these data, we noted that it was in the group that used the GDS that we found both the lowest and the highest AcI of depression within the included studies, 1.3% and 26.6% respectively. 16,17he AcI values of this group also represent a greater heterogeneity among the four groups, in contrast to the data found in the group that used the CES-D scale, with a variation between the lowest and highest AcI with 1.4% to 5.4% 18,19 respectively (Fig. 2).
][22][23] For this one, a greater variation in AcI between studies can be observed: 22 with 0.2%, 20 followed by with 2.5%, 21 with 5.3% and with 7%. 23In terms of comparability with the other groups, the information regarding SSD and mD was used to acquire the AcI values shown in Fig. 2.
As can be seen in Fig. 2, the group of studies that used the GDS to assess the depressive variable can be represented as a group with a greater variation among the AcI values, with 26.6% per year for the study with the highest percentage 16 and 1.3% per year for the lowest value. 17We observed a maximum AcI of 5.4% 18 for the CES-D group; 7% 23 for the group that used diagnostic interviews, and 10.2% 24 for the group that used other scales.
Regarding the follow-up time, the group that used the GDS had the lowest mean time, with 2.5 years, followed by the diagnostic interview groups, with 3.8 years; miscellaneous scales, with 5.3 years; and CES-D, with 6 years.Only two of the included studies carried out a follow-up of less than a year, respectively 9 and 11 months, 16,25 which led to an increase in the cI when adjusted by year.These two AcI values were quite different from the value found in the study with the third highest AcI, 12%, 26 belonging to the GDS group.
7][58][59] There was no relationship between the time the study was conducted, and the AcI values found.

Instruments used by the included articles to assess depression
Concerning the instruments used to evaluate the outcome, there was a predominance in the use of scales (91.3%), which function more as a screening tool, but not as a diagnostic one.Among the scales, we observed that the GDS in its several versions (30, 15, and five items) was the most used one (approximately 57%), as well as a change in the cutoff point to define 'depressive cases'

Identification of studies via databases and registers
Records identified from: Records removed before screening: x Duplicate records removed (n =5 697) Abstracts and titles screened (n = 11 639) Records excluded: x Did not meet eligibility criteria (n = 10 875) x Conference abstracts (n =11) Full text assessed for eligibility (n =753) x Did not meet eligibility criteria (n =693) x Exposure variable associated with natural disasters or catastrophes (n=01) x No incidence data for (n=10) 6,44,46,56,59 As for the diagnostic instruments and interviews, they corresponded to 8.3% [20][21][22][23] of the frequency among the 46 articles included.In the case of the articles that used the CES-D, heterogeneity was also observed regarding the cutoff point, since some studies used a version with 20 items, 19,47,52,53 with variable cutoff points including depending on gender, 10 items, 18 and eight items.43,61 Within the articles that used the GDS to assess new cases of older adults with depressive symptoms, 73.1% had an Asian origin, 17,26,30-35,37-39,41,42,45,49- 51,55,58 15.3% European, 28,40,57,60 7.7% came from the American continents 16,48 and one study from Oceania 25 that corresponds to 3.9%.
The frequency distribution changes for the other tests were: the CES-D was more used by European studies, with 71.4%, 19,43,47,52 followed by China and Taiwan with 28.6%. 18,54The group formed from other scales was distributed in descending order to Europe 8,24,56,59 with 44.5%, Asia 29,44 and Americas 36,46 each with approximately 22.2% and one Australian study. 27inally, diagnostic interviews were used by two studies from the United States, 21,23 South Korea 22 and France 20 each at 25%.

Characteristics of the included studies
The characteristics of each study considered important for this review can be seen in Table 1.We included cohort studies, with follow-up time varying between 9 months and 16 years, and a variety of nationalities and instruments for outcome assessment.
Of the 46 articles included in this global systematic review, 45 articles investigated communitydwelling older adults in 13 different countries.A single article included was of a multicentric nature   and revealed incidence data of depression/ depressive symptoms concerning 14 countries-13 European and Israel. 8s shown in the graph (Fig. 3), most of the publications came from the Asian continent (Japan, China, Korea, and Taiwan), with 24 articles included in this systematic review.The second continent to produce more material included in this review was Europe, with a greater distribution of countries: France, England, Italy, the Netherlands, and a multicentre study (the latter included 13 European countries and Israel).Finally, studies with American populations were included in this review (three North American studies, two studies from the continental region of Latin America and the Caribbean) and Oceania (two Australian studies).No studies involving the African continental area or group of countries located on islands were included.

Risk of bias among included studies
The assessment of the risk of the studies included in this review can be seen in Table 2.We obtained a score collected from the count of each item fulfilled among the 14, that is, the closer to this total, the fewer biases were observed.We noted that some items were not reported in any of the included articles, such as item 5, in which there should have been mention of issues related to sample calculation or sample power.As for item 12, related to the blinding of interviewers when evaluating the outcome, it was also not observed that the action had been carried out in all the included studies.

DISCUSSION
This study aimed to synthesise information related to the incidence of depression and depressive symptoms in a specific population of communitydwelling older adults aged 60 years or over.It is important to highlight that significant heterogeneity characteristics can be observed, especially due to geographical diversity, variation in instruments used, as well as follow-up time, which makes this systematic review more challenging.However, since many studies met the eligibility criteria and could be included in this review, it was possible to separate the material into groups, which favoured interpretation.
For the evaluation of depression from a dimensional point of view, we found a variety of AcI ranging from 1.3% 17 to 26.6%, 16 while in the systematic review by Buchtemann et al., 10 they observed a variation from 6.1% to 18.7% in incidence proportions.
In the categorical assessment of depression, when considering MD, our review observed a variation of 0.2% 22 to 7.0%, 23 compared to 1.7% to 7.6% found in the 2012 review. 10he difference seen between the ways of defining what is or is not a 'depressive case' (whether categorical or dimensional) is not limited to scientific research.It can have repercussions in the demands of the health systems, with a focus on primary care, and in the production of public policies, with a consequent impact on the health of older adults.There is a possibility that the diagnosis of depression in older adults made by diagnostic tools such as International Classification of Diseases 62 or Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 63 may underestimate cases of depression that are not so severe, 64,65 but which could benefit from early interventions.Further research would need to be conducted to provide a framework for understanding the early detection of depressive states in older adults.
As for the dimensional depression assessment scales, the GDS in its original version has 30 items and was designed for the specific evaluation of depression in older adults, which made it possible to include more specific items of the population in focus when considering somatic and cognitive complaints, with a sensitivity of 84% and specificity of 95% when considering the cutoff point of 11 or more items. 66he 15-item version was considered in an attempt to include sicker older adults and those with dementia because they have greater difficulty in concentrating for a longer time, 67 but, as could be seen in the results, it was widely used.It is understood that the diversity of versions and cutoff points present adaptation, validity and reliability studies in each country, 66,67 but the diversity has been observed as a factor that hinders statistical inferences and comparisons for systematic reviews.
The CES-D was developed to measure symptomatology in the general population and showed a good level of internal consistency and test-retest stability, including in the older adult population. 68Other scales also showed validity for application and especially for assessing the severity of depressive symptoms, such as the Zung Self-Assessment Scale and the Hamilton Depression Scale. 69,70or a few decades, a model of dimensional understanding of depression has been discussed and proposed through follow-up or trajectory studies of major depressive episodes (MDE).By observing the time in weeks of the depressive level characterised by the severity of symptoms, the authors observed that people diagnosed with MDE spend most of the follow-up with subsyndromal or minor symptoms when considering a beginning and end of the episode. 71This perception reveals a chronic nature of depression, which is associated with low social functioning in adults and older adults. 72Furthermore, it has been observed in older adults that even moderate depressive symptoms lead to losses related to years lived with quality. 3he dimensional grasp allows the understanding of the depressive construct as a spectrum, which can locate an individual according to the symptomatologic severity in depressive symptoms, minor depression, dysthymia, and major depressive disorder. 73,74Therefore, the assessment of the depressive construct through the means of validated scales can be an accessible tool for primary care services, 73 especially to target older adults who are at higher risk. 68 different profile of included articles was observed in another systematic review conducted 10 when compared to ours.In Buchtemann et al.'s review, which also sought to assess the incidence of depression and depressive symptoms in communitydwelling older adults, it was observed that 75% of the included materials dealt with data from European countries, with the rest consisting of North American studies and a minority from Asia or Oceania.This totality of articles conducted in countries considered developed differed from ours, as it was possible to include studies carried out in developing countries, in addition to the axis of the group of developed countries being predominant in the Asian continental area.
Moreover, there is a difference in the number of articles included in the present review and in that of Buchtemann et al. 10 regarding the way of researching the depressive variable: in our study, most of the articles included used dimensional assessment, obtained through the application of scales, contrary to what was observed in the 2012 review, with most of the material included consisting of categorical diagnosis.
Concerning geographic influence, the United Nations classification was chosen regarding continental regions: Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, North America, and Oceania. 75In this review, we observed a considerable asymmetry when comparing the amount of published material between the countries considered developed and less developed.This difference may be related to the timing and speed of population growth in certain geographic areas.For example, sub-Saharan African countries are at a moment of accelerated growth, and do not have the same proportional frequency of older adults compared to those countries that have already been going through an ageing process for a few decades. 1 However, this does not seem to be the only justification.Countries that are part of the lowest GDP group had participation in this review (or did not participate at all) and represented a large amount of the global population in 2019, such as China, India, and Brazil. 1 In addition, it can be observed that the Asian continent collaborated with a large part of the articles included, with emphasis on materials from Japan.It is known that Japan and the administrative regions of China such as Hong Kong and Macau are the places with the highest life expectancy at birth in the world. 1 In this review, most of the articles came from countries considered developed by the United Nations Organizations. 75In recent years, these countries have already presented a large proportion of older adults in their populations.According to information from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 76 among the developed countries participating in this systematic review, the highest proportion of older adults by 2021 was observed in Japan, with 28.9% of the population composed of older adults aged 65 years or older.Italy ranks second in terms of the proportion of older adults with 23.7%, followed by other European countries, which include France, the Netherlands, and England with 20.9%, 19.9%, and 18.8% respectively.On the American continent, Canada and the United States have a proportion of older adults of 18.5% and 16.5% of the population, and in Oceania, Australia had a proportion of 16.8% in 2021.Korea and Taiwan (https://www.statista.com/)had 16.6% and 16.8% respectively of older adults in their territories.
It is possible to hypothesise that there is a greater interest in fostering scientific research in developed countries, which enables large studies such as those observed in this systematic review.The evaluation of the occurrence of DDS on a global level and the geographic extension obtained can be considered a strong point in this systematic review of incidence.
From the standpoint of the quality of the included studies, most were characterised by good internal validity, which allows confidence in the exposed results at the end of the reading.It can be observed that for item 5, in which it was sought how these articles reached the sample size, the sample power, and the estimated effect size, almost none of the studies scored, which may be explained by the exploratory nature of the studies.Item 12, which asked about the blinding of the evaluators in the data collection process, was not covered by any of the included studies.It is possible that the description was not made because it is inferred that there is already a kind of blinding in cohort studies, especially in research with large populations, in which the outcome evaluator does not know the status at baseline.
Still regarding bias assessment, among the studies that obtained total scores of 6 or less, we could observe that flaws or gaps in the description and transparency may have influenced this result, and in the end, the admission by the evaluators that the data revealed were in fact true was impaired.It is emphasised that future cohort studies should be careful to make it as clear as possible that the exposure comes before the outcome in a similar sample population.
It is worth pointing out that there was a variation in the follow-up period between the studies, which did not make it feasible to estimate the DDS per group through meta-analysis, which can be highlighted as an important limitation of this manuscript.Another limitation is the variety of instruments that assess the depressive attribute, which generated heterogeneity.Despite this, the grouping by instruments and the annual adjustment proposed for the cI allowed some comparability among the studies.An additional constraint was the exclusion of the grey literature due to a large number of articles already included in the previous steps, which may be associated with a selection bias.Furthermore, due to the number of articles included, it was not feasible to evaluate the lists of articles included to check eligibility.
Finally, as this is a review at a global level, a large volume of studies about depression in communitydwelling older adults in the last decades was found.This amount of production occurred predominantly in countries considered developed from both social and economic perspectives, and whose demographic transition is already a reality.This study has shown that the global AcI of depression and depressive symptoms occurs at around 3.9% to 4.5%, which in turn is associated with the impairment to older adults' general health.This reinforces the need for health policies for older adults to also incorporate mental health care, especially for preventive and curative actions for depression or clinically significant depressive symptoms.

xFigure 1
Figure 1 Flowchart identifying the systematic review selection process.
Depression Scale; CES-D Depression Scale of the Center for Epidemiological Studies Source: Authors

Figure 2
Figure 2 Annual cumulative incidence grouped by screening/diagnostic tools.

Figure 3
Figure 3 Distribution of publications included in the systematic review by countries.

Table 1
Characteristics of the studies included in the systematic review and meta-analysis MDE, major depressive episode; GHQ, version of the General Health Questionnaire; BDI, Beck Depression Inventory; SCID, Structured clinical interview for DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders); HDS, Hamilton depressive scale; RCI, residential care institution.†Incidence ratio per 1000 people years (CI 95%).§Value reported in the article, but divergent in the manual calculation: Jin, 2020; Scali, 2011; Tani, 2016; Schoevers, 2000-elderly with neurotic depressive syndrome; for the purpose of our article, psychotic depressive syndrome was excluded from the calculation; Lyness, 2009-the sample size at risk was not well described in the paper for each wave; Chan, 2012-the number of elderly people with depressive symptoms at baseline were excluded from the calculation.
L. E.Eulalio Brasileiro et al. © 2024 The Authors Psychogeriatrics published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Japanese Psychogeriatric Society.© 2024 The Authors Psychogeriatrics published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Japanese Psychogeriatric Society.L. E. Eul alio Brasileiro et al. © 2024 The Authors Psychogeriatrics published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Japanese Psychogeriatric Society.Abbreviations: cI, cumulative incidence; CI 95%, confidence interval; NR, not reported; W, wave; MOS SF 36, MOS Short Form 36-item Health Survey; GDS, Geriatric Depression Scale; CES-D, Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale; MINI, Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview; SSD, subsyndromal symptomatic depression; mDD, minor depressive disorder; MDD, major depressive disorder; PD, Parkinson disease; AD, Alzheimer disease or dementia; MMSE, Mini Mental State Examination; BADL, basic activities of daily living; LTCIS, long-term care insurance system; DS, depressive symptoms; frailty status: PF, physical frailty; cognitive imp., cognitive impairment; SF, social frailty; GMS-AGECAT, geriatric mental state-automatic geriatric examination for computer-assisted taxonomy; ADMU, antidepressants medication use; FUA, follow-up assessments; SDS, Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale; ‡ ¶ Follow-up time inferred by the authors.† † Only major depressive disorder.‡ ‡ Major and minor depression.Incidence of depression in older adults © 2024 The Authors Psychogeriatrics published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Japanese Psychogeriatric Society.

Table 2
Quality Assessment Tool for Observational Cohort and Cross-Sectional Studies