Functional Disability and Social Conflict Increase Risk of Depression in Older Adulthood Among Bolivian Forager-Farmers | Zendy

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Functional Disability and Social Conflict Increase Risk of Depression in Older Adulthood Among Bolivian Forager-Farmers

Author(s) -

Jonathan Stieglitz,

Eric Schniter,

Christopher von Rueden,

Hillard Kaplan,

Michael Gurven

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

the journals of gerontology series b

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.578

H-Index - 150

eISSN - 1758-5368

pISSN - 1079-5014

DOI - 10.1093/geronb/gbu080

Subject(s) - depression (economics) , subsistence agriculture , productivity , demography , psychology , gerontology , focus group , medicine , geography , sociology , economics , economic growth , archaeology , anthropology , macroeconomics , agriculture

To present an explanatory framework for depression in older adulthood in a small-scale society. We propose that depression is a consequence of functional disability, which can reduce subsistence productivity and resource transfers within and across generations. Social conflict can also disrupt resource flows and should be associated with depression.

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