Mental Disorders in Older Adults
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Behavior, Chronic Disease and Health Promotion".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 August 2021) | Viewed by 5476
Special Issue Editors
Interests: psychiatric epidemiology; geriatric psychiatry; psychogeriatrics; cognitive impairment and dementia; telepsychiatry; organization of psychogeriatric care
Interests: technology applied in mental health; geriatric psychiatry; psychogeriatrics; psychosocial approaches to dementia
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2. Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei 100, Taiwan
Interests: geriatric psychiatry; mild cognitive impairment and dementia; psychopharmacology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are organizing a Special Issue on mental disorders in older persons in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. The venue is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes articles and communications in the interdisciplinary area of environmental health sciences and public health. For detailed information on the journal, we refer you to https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph.
According to the WHO, between 2000 and 2050, the proportion of the world's population over 60 years will double from about 11% to 22%, and the number of people aged 80 years or older will have almost quadrupled. The figures will be much higher in developed/Western countries, but low- and middle-income countries will experience the most rapid and dramatic demographic change.
The main causes of disability in this population will be chronic diseases, including depression, dementia, and other mental disorders. Although some of the variations in older people’s health reflect their genetic inheritance, most will be the result of their physical and social environments.
In this context, there is an urgent need to carefully study the mental health of older populations around the globe, taking into account the specificities of the aging process and the social and environmental context, because, following WHO again, comprehensive public health action will require fundamental shifts in how we think about aging and health.
This Special Issue will focus on the mental health of older persons and major intrinsic and extrinsic factors that influence it.
Prof. Dr. Raimundo Mateos
Prof. Dr. Manuel Franco-Martín
Prof. Dr. Tzung-Jeng Hwang
Prof. Dr. Iva Holmerová
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Older persons
- Older adults
- Aged
- Mental disorders
- Mental health
- Dementia
- Depression
- Health services for aged
- Psychosocial interventions
- Prevention and mental health
- Nursing homes
- Long term care
