Objective: To examine the relationship of negative life events and the incidence of geriatric depression.Methods:Non-depressed elderly of a study on the prevalence of depression among the elderly was followed up with a one-year interval with the GMS-AGECAT and MDS. The data was analyzed by SPSS using ?2 analysis, correlate analysis and Multinomial Logistic Regression. Results:The incidence of geriatric depression had close relationship with the number of negative life events(r=0.96,P