Official statistics suggest that as many as half of adults aged 50 and older in prison are diagnosed with some type of mental health problem, including serious mental disorders, such as major depression, schizophrenia, and cognitive impairment. The social determinants of mental health, such as ...
The Internet is increasingly important in addressing age-related mental health challenges. We used linear mixed models and meta-analyses to examine the association between Internet use and mental health among 87,559 adults aged ≥50 years from 23 countri
Older adultsMental healthCOVID-19Social isolationNigeriaThis research examined the mental health challenges of older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria using interpretive phenomenology. The consequences of these challenges on the quality of life of older people were also explored. The ...
Organic mental disorders in older adults can produce a range of symptoms, such as decline of memory, comprehension, learning capacity, language abilities, and judgment, including the ability to think and calculate, or severe dementia. Alzheimer’s disease is the prominent condition in this category...
Definitions and perceptions of health and mental health have not remained static over time. This is also true for statistics over Swedish children’s and adolescents’ health and mental health status. The majority of Swedish school-aged children and adol
mental health of older adults. There is no unanimous conclusion on the impact of employment on the mental health of the elderly in the existing research, which can be roughly divided into two kinds of views: one kind of view holds that employment promotes the mental health of the elderly. ...
Generally, girls and older adolescents recognized symptom profiles better and had lower levels of prejudiced beliefs. Conclusions A low cost general school program may improve mental health literacy in adolescents. Gender specific programs and attention to the age and maturity of the students should be...
It has become even more challenging to achieve healthy aging in the era of COVID-19. China has the largest population of adults aged 60 years or older in the world (253.88 million in 2019), According to the data from the China Mental Health Survey, the number of Chinese populations who ...
other adverse mental health outcomes.13-16Access to these interventions is also associated with a decreased lifetime incidence of suicidal ideation among adults who had access to PBs during adolescence.17Conversely, TNB youths who present to care later in adolescence or young adulthood experience more...
Adults have been found to tell lies about their physical and mental health concerns, but no research has assessed how health lies are perceived by others. The present study explored the moral acceptability of older adults’ health lies. A sample of 73 younger and 61 older adults assessed how ...