
Geriatric Depression and its treatment: Medication
Treatments for Major Depression Medication Let’s move to a discussion of medication for depression in the senior population. Antidepressant medication first became available in the 1950s with the introduction of the tricyclic imipramine. Since then, numerous agents have become available in the United States. A detailed discussion of the mechanism of action of these drugs is well beyond the scope of this blog, but briefly, antidepressants act in complex ways on one or more of