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 ...
Elderly Depression. 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.