随着社会的进步,人民生活质量逐步提高,人类的平均寿命也不断得到延长,人口老龄化的问题越来越显著,继之而来的是老年病人的日益增多。抑郁症是老年期最常见的病症,国外报告占65岁以上总人口的7～10％。而有躯体疾病的老年人,患抑郁症的比例可高达50％。因此如何认识老年病人的抑郁状态也是一个迫在眉睫的问题。虽然已有不少文章谈到了老年期的抑郁问题,但由于以往的医学模式只重视于生物医学,而 With the progress of the society, the quality of life of the people has gradually increased, the average life expectancy of mankind has been continuously extended, the problem of population aging has become more and more obvious, and the increasing number of elderly patients has followed. Depression is the most common disease in old age, foreign reports accounted for 7 to 10% of the total population over the age of 65. Older people with somatic diseases may have up to 50% of depression. Therefore, how to recognize the depression status of elderly patients is also an urgent problem. Although many articles have talked about depression in old age, since the previous medical model only focused on biomedicine,