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A Transparent Four-Feature Logistic Model for Depression Screening in Assisted-Living Facilities

2025-07-16 health informatics Title + abstract only
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Depression in older adults is both common and frequently underdiagnosed, especially in assisted-living communities, where it often co-occurs with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), creating a complex and vulnerable clinical landscape. Despite this urgency, scalable, interpretable, and easy-to-administer tools for early screening remain scarce. In this study, we introduce a transparent and lightweight AI-driven screening model that uses only four linguistic features extracted from brief conversatio...

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