Older persons mental health

Upcoming events

Rainbows Don’t Fade with Age, the needs and experiences of older LGBTI people

Diversity, Older persons mental health, Service development

The training provides an introductory body of knowledge to staff working with or supporting to older people to enable an understanding of the lives...

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Mental health and mental illness across the lifespan

Life presents a range of challenges, which vary throughout a person's lifetime. Accordingly, mental health may be affected by these challenges, and...

Mental Health for Older Persons: Conditions and Assessments

This topic explores the transition to old age and the changes to physical health that can either co-occur with, or masquerade as mental illness. The...

Mental Health for Older persons: Interventions

This topic considers approaches to mental care for older people including person-centred care, collaborative care, care co-ordination and health...

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This article includes participant discussions from an event titled "Working with Older People to Make Recovery Real in Later Life".

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The Diversity Framework seeks to embed diversity in the design and delivery of aged care; and support action to address perceived or actual barriers to consumers accessing safe, equitable and quality aged care, while enabling consumers and carers to be partners in this process.

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