Depression therapy for Older Adults: Tackling Loneliness and Loss
Loneliness grows quietly. It slips in after a spouse passes, when a driver’s license gets surrendered, when a favorite daughter moves two time zones away, or after a fall changes the confidence to leave the house. In later life, it often arrives in pairs with grief, medical setbacks, and a thinning social circle. Distinguishing lonely sadness from clinical depression matters, because the second steals appetite, sleep, and the desire to keep going. Good care can restore driv