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We know, however, with older adults specifically, many older adults can experience a major depressive disorder or a clinical depression without appearing sad or without necessarily feeling sad. We know that with older adults, rather than through psychological symptoms like sadness, depression, loss, etc., many will tend to experience depression through bodily symptoms like aches, pains, and those sorts of difficulties. So certainly we encourage providers who are working with older adults, who are appearing, say, in a primary care medical practice repeatedly for sort of vague symptoms, to begin asking questions about what sorts of things are going on in their lives, how they're feeling, how they're doing, and that sort of thing.
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