Doctors Warn: Your Elderly Parent's "Grumpiness" May Be Killing Them #brain #neuroscience #science

[00:00:00]If someone you love over 60 has become quiet, withdrawn, or just not themselves, >> [music] >> don't call it aging.

[00:00:08]Doctors warn this is depression, and it's destroying their health silently.

[00:00:13]>> [music] >> Depression affects one in five seniors, but only 10% get diagnosed.

[00:00:20]Seniors don't say, "I'm [music] sad."

[00:00:22]They go quiet, they stop eating, they disappear.

[00:00:26]Sign [music] one, withdrawing from family and friends, losing interest in everything they used to love.

[00:00:33]Families call this grumpy. It's not grumpy, it's a medical condition.

[00:00:37]>> [music] >> Sign two, unexplained physical complaints, constant headaches or back [music] pain with no medical cause.

[00:00:46]In seniors, depression often [music] speaks through the body, not the mind.

[00:00:51]Sign three, memory problems [music] and confusion.

[00:00:55]Untreated depression mimics dementia so closely [music] that many seniors are misdiagnosed with Alzheimer's.

[00:01:04]Sign four, sleeping too much or too little, and a sudden loss of appetite.

[00:01:10]When a senior stops [music] eating, something is deeply wrong. Senior depression is treatable, but only if someone recognizes [music] it first.

[00:01:19]Talk to their doctor this week, not next month.

[00:01:22]This week.

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