Because of older people's multiple risk factors for developing alcoholism, counselors will need to identify the specific risk factors for each of their clients. Care for clients who have psychiatric conditions will likely require the services of psychiatrists, counselors, and other mental health ...
Let’s start with a clarification. In the field of mental health and aging, “older adults” generally refers to people aged 65 and older. The article, however, focuses onADHDdiagnoses in adults between 30 and 64. While that’s an interesting and worthwhile topic, ...
While older millennials are experiencing higher rates of chronic health conditions, it may not be strictly due to declining health. The implementation of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, also known as Obamacare, increased access to health-care providers for many Americans. This was especially impor...
Falls are a leading cause of mortality and morbidity in older people and the risk of falling is exacerbated by mental health conditions. Existing reviews have focused on people with dementia and cognitive impairment, but not those with other mental health conditions or in mental health settings. T...
New ECU research has found that more than 40 percent of older Australians with chronic disease would be unlikely to seek help for mental health conditions even if they needed it. One in seven Australians is aged over 65. But while we're living longer, we're not necessarily living better or...
relationship inolder adultsin the United States. Older people are especially vulnerable to mental health issues such as depression, which has been shown to increase the risk of cognitive decline and dementia. They are also less likely to receive treatment to manage their mental health conditions. ...
This external perception of older adults could be internalized by them as a sense of self-perceived uselessness, leading to poor health and high mortality (Zhao et al. 2017). More importantly, the law of the jungle could lead to mental illness in older people of the Confucian context, ...
Acute Older People's Mental Health (OPMH) liaison services provide mental health care to people being treated for physical health conditions in general hospitals. The co-occurrence of mental and physical health problems is very common among these patients, often leading to poorer health outcomes ...
Frequency of conditions associated with declines in intrinsic capacity according to a screening tool in the context of integrated care for older people. J Frailty Aging. 2021;10:94–102. https://doi.org/10.14283/jfa.2020.42. Article PubMed Google Scholar Beard JR, Si Y, Liu Z, Chenoweth ...
Researchers believe that social and environmental conditions are the main reason that women are 50 percent more likely than men to experience depression. True or false? What are your thoughts about the stigma towards mental health? How might we reduce the stigma so that people f...