This approach considers health care providers, social workers, occupational therapists and others as part of a team caring for elderly patients with affective disorders such as depression. The 17 articles address new approaches to therapy, detection and clinical features, etiology, pharmaceuticals, electricity and magnetism, psychotherapy, depression in the physically ill elderly, and perspectives from various professional viewpoints. One article even covers the neglected aspect of spirituality in the elderly and its relationship to affective disorders.