MedPage Today (3/21, Monaco) reports, “Greater social support for older adults with depression helped boost verbal functioning, researchers” concluded. In the “cross-sectional study” involving “54 participants with an average age of 72,” researchers found that “seniors with major depressive disorder tended to score higher on phonemic fluency – measured by Controlled Oral Word Association Test…– when they had higher levels of perceived social support.” What’s more, “this association went both ways,” the study revealed. The findings were published online March 21 in a research letter in JAMA Network Open.
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