DIAGNOSTICS AND TREATMENT ASPECTS OF DEPRESSIVE SYNDROME AND COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT IN ELDERLY PEOPLE
In this article we consider the relevant issues of comorbidity in depressive syndrome and cognitive dysfunction together with the reasons that can induce them. Difficulties in diagnostics and treatment of depressive syndrome in older people are connected with cardiovascular and neurological diseases. A fact that consumption of certain medicines for somatic pathology treatment can lead to depression disorder is particularly interesting nowadays and requires further study. The relevance of diagnostics and treatment approaches to these conditions in the cohort of elderly is determined by crucial medical and social consequences which can occur without adequate therapeutic correction. Results of treatment by dint of antidepressants as Vortioxetine, Sertraline, Ixel, Cipralex, Coaxil and Agomelatine are shown in the article.