Subsequently in life, depression and disquiet disorders are affiliated with surplus disability. Disability studies are shown to be a risk factor for depression.(Unrau 2001). A study of older male veterans receiving primary care showed pain-related disability as a common occurrence among this population. Depressive symptoms and pain intensity are associated with pain-related disability and represent targets for intervention in older people pain.
Another study examined the difference between the effects of depressive symptoms and functional disabilities and their temporal character of a community-based group of 753 ...