Quality of life and its predictors among aging people in urban and rural Nepal.

Purpose: We studied the quality of life (QoL) of the elderly in Nepal and their special needs. Nepal is a low- and middle-income country where the elderly population is growing significantly.

Methods: A random selection of informants from the Kavre district was carried out in this cross-sectional, population-based, door-to-door survey.

Nepali Version of Geriatric Depression Scale-15 - A Reliability and Validation Study.

Background: Geriatric depression is a significant problem in both the developed and the developing world. To identify this condition, Geriatric Depression Scale has been used in different languages and cultural settings; it has proved to be a reliable and valid instrument. However, the Geriatric Depression Scale-15 version in Nepali has so far not been validated.

Prevalence of geriatric depression in the Kavre district, Nepal: Findings from a cross sectional community survey.

Background: The increasing elderly population worldwide is likely to increase mental health problems such as geriatric depression, which has mostly been studied in high-income countries. Similar studies are scarce in low-and-middle-income-countries like Nepal.

Methods: A cross-sectional, population-based, door-to-door survey was conducted in randomly selected rural and urban population clusters of the Kavre district, Nepal.