@misc{oai:kawasakigakuen.repo.nii.ac.jp:00000318, author = {Masatoshi TAKEDA and Kenji ISHIKAWA and Takao INOUE and Junya ORUI and Morihiro OKADA and Takeshi KAMISHIMA and Koichi SHIMANO and Maki TAKEI and Fumie TAZAKI and Shunsuke NAKAMATSU and Takako MIZUNO and Seigo MINAMI and Eiji TANIGUCHI and Kumiko TERAYAMA}, month = {Dec}, note = {Major depression has a prevalence of 6% among the elderly, reaching 15% when minor depression is included. In clinical practice of rehabilitation, we should aware the fact that 6 - 15% of the elderly are subjects of minor/major depression who sometimes show less motivation to rehabilitation, resulting in less effective outcome from the service. We should know the characteristics of late-life depression which differs from typical depression of adults, sometimes difficult to be distinguished from dementia. It has been pointed out that late-life depression can be a risk for Alzheimer's disease and that there is depression due to vascular factors., Review Article}, title = {Late-life depression and rehabilitation}, year = {2020} }