AARP Social Security Resources. If you and your spouse file a joint return with a combined income below $32,000, your benefits are out of reach. For income between $32,000 and $44,000, up to 50 percent of benefits may be taxable, and up to 85 percent if combined income is more than $44,000. For more information, go to Social Security's website.
More than 16 percent of Americans -- as many as 35 million people -- suffer from depression severe enough to warrant treatment at some time in their lives, according to the National Comorbidity Study, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and published today in a special issue on depression of The Journal of the American Medical Association ...
Major depression is rare in people over the age of 60, however, 10 to 15 percent of older people who are in hospitals and long-term care settings do have major depression. About five percent of people over the age of 65 in the United States have significant drinking problems.