1 In a given year, between 1 and 2 percent of people over age 65 living in the community, i.e., not living in nursing homes or other institutions, suffer from major depression and about 2 percent have dysthymia. Depressive disorders are appearing earlier in life with the average age of onset 50 years ago being 29 whereas recent statistics indicate it at just 14.5yrs in today's society. 2  Nearly twice as many women (12.0 percent) as men (6.6 percent) are affected by a depressive disorder each year.
Originally Answered: What is the opposite of a Democracy? Dictatorship (or, as others have more accurately labelled, autocracy). Democracy is described as a political system where the general populace are permitted to engage, to varying degrees, in the day-to-day running of their own countries, whether through representative democratic elections or actual direct democratic actions, such as referenda.
According to James Madison, the difference between a democracy and  a republic is that a democracy is a government ruled by the people  and a republic is a country that is o â¦ wned by the people. republic is a form of government where a group of officials who represent the people vote on issues, whereas a direct democracy is a form of government where all citizens di â¦ rectly vote on issues.