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Eurodep Consortium and late-life depression

The EURODEP Consortium is a large, international collaboration which aggregates data to permit methodologically sound secondary analyses of extant epidemiological data across multiple sites throughout Europe. The effort, as exemplified in the papers presented here, can help clarify issues which have been debated among old age psychiatrists throughout the developed world for many years. Perhaps of more importance, however, is that the cross-national nature of the study can bring new questions to the centre of discussions about late-life depression, questions of far more interest, in my opinion, than some of the questions which have dominated the epidemiological study of mood disorders among the elderly in recent years (Blazer, 1997). I first address the methods of this collaboration, which must be understood by anyone who reviews these reports critically. Next I focus upon a question addressed by the investigators which should fade to the background with the publication of these studies and a review of studies already published. I then suggest another question, raised by the investigators, that should proceed to centre stage.