Somewhere between 15% and 65% of elders living in nursing homes and residential care facilities have significant depression and anxiety1 and these symptoms have only intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic.2 Depression and anxiety are major contributors to decreased quality of life for older adults and are associated with poor health outcomes, social isolation, functional decline including premature death and increasing the burden on nursing home staff and caregivers.3,4 Mood disorders in late life are also often unrecognized clinically and more likely to have a complicated clinical course and incomplete recovery and.

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