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As Turkey's population is getting older, a growing number of older people live in care and nursing homes. This study aims to determine the depression and the sleeping quality states of people aged 65 and older, who live in a care home. The population of this cross-sectional study is 149 elderly people who live in one of the oldest care home in Istanbul. In December 2019, the data of the study were collected from 107 participants via face-to-face questionnaires that included the Geriatric Depression Scale -15 (GDS-15) and Pittsburgh Sleeping Quality Index (PSQI), besides sociodemographic questions. The participation rate was 71.8%. The average age of the participants was 74.06±7.07, and the majority of them were male (69.2%). The findings of the study revealed 29.0% had depression symptoms and 51.4% had poor sleep quality. It was determined that there was a statistically significant difference between the groups whether having at least a chronic disease or not, in terms of depression scores (p=0.047), but no difference between sleep quality. There were no significant differences between groups of gender and whether they were being visited by their acquaintances or not, as far as depression score and sleep quality are concerned. There was a significant positive correlation between PSQI and GDS-15 depression scores (r=0.421; p<0.001), that people with poor sleep quality were found to have increased GDS-15 depression scores.

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