Do you want to learn more about mental health among older adults?
Here is a great resource including webinars from the NCOA. As you know, older men age 75+ have the highest suicide rate and it is directly related to depression, a treatable condition. The majority of them had seen a physician within the last thirty days. Geriatricians are working closely with the medical community and promoting depression screenings by primary care physicians [PCP's] to address this issue.
I hope you find it useful. Below is an excerpt from their site describing the resources and the link:
Older Americans Behavioral Health: Issue Brief Series
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and Administration on Aging (AoA) have partnered with NCOA and others to develop a series of Issue Briefs to address behavioral health issues that are important to older Americans. The Issue Brief series focuses on issues of suicide, anxiety and depression, prescription drug misuse and abuse, and alcohol abuse. The target audiences the Issue Briefs are the local and State Aging Services Network, behavioral health community, and substance abuse providers.
A complimentary webinar series provides a special opportunity to learn about critical behavioral health conditions and problems affecting older adults, including prescription medication misuse and abuse, suicide, depression, and anxiety and evidence-based prevention and treatment programs to address these problems.
