Mental disorders affect older persons in Sweden - a register-based study

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 277-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gunilla Martinsson ◽  
Lena Wiklund-Gustin ◽  
Ingegerd Fagerberg ◽  
Christina Lindholm
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Older Persons

scholarly journals Ageing and mental health resources for older persons in the African region of the World Health Organization

2008 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Carlos Augusto De Mendonca Lima ◽  
Annette Leibing ◽  
Rudiger Buschfort
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Life Expectancy ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Child Mortality ◽  
Older Persons ◽  
World Health ◽  
Font Size ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

<div style="left: 80.7408px; top: 560.329px; font-size: 15.45px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.890161);" data-canvas-width="54.285000000000004"><strong><br /></strong></div><div style="left: 135.026px; top: 560.329px; font-size: 15.45px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.878143);" data-canvas-width="332.05499999999995">Africa is a region where a demographic transition</div><div style="left: 80.7408px; top: 583.658px; font-size: 15.45px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.923852);" data-canvas-width="386.355">from high child mortality and low life expectancy, to low</div><div style="left: 80.7408px; top: 606.988px; font-size: 15.45px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.917491);" data-canvas-width="386.3250000000001">child mortality and high life expectancy is only just beginning.</div><div style="left: 80.7408px; top: 630.317px; font-size: 15.45px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.90105);" data-canvas-width="386.325">Nevertheless, some countries already have a growing number</div><div style="left: 80.7408px; top: 653.647px; font-size: 15.45px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.86776);" data-canvas-width="386.36999999999995">of persons over the age of 60 – a number that is likely to</div><div style="left: 80.7408px; top: 676.976px; font-size: 15.45px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.910465);" data-canvas-width="386.29499999999985">increase rapidly. As a consequence, the number of older</div><div style="left: 80.7408px; top: 700.306px; font-size: 15.45px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.856441);" data-canvas-width="386.355">persons with mental disorders is likely to increase. To better</div><div style="left: 80.7408px; top: 723.635px; font-size: 15.45px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.876054);" data-canvas-width="386.3249999999999">understand the organisation of care for older persons, data</div><div style="left: 80.7408px; top: 746.965px; font-size: 15.45px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.904425);" data-canvas-width="386.32499999999993">are being collected to reduce the imbalance between ‘disease</div><div style="left: 80.7408px; top: 770.294px; font-size: 15.45px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.928667);" data-canvas-width="386.31">information’ and ‘resource information’ – information that</div><div style="left: 80.7408px; top: 793.624px; font-size: 15.45px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.886607);" data-canvas-width="386.28">addresses older persons’ needs in terms of mental health care.</div><div style="left: 80.7408px; top: 816.953px; font-size: 15.45px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.848252);" data-canvas-width="386.28">This review presents some results from the continent. Mental</div><div style="left: 80.7408px; top: 840.283px; font-size: 15.45px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.891655);" data-canvas-width="386.2500000000001">health problems among older adults are still not a public health</div><div style="left: 80.7408px; top: 863.612px; font-size: 15.45px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.911932);" data-canvas-width="386.3550000000001">priority in Africa, but careful examination of each country</div><div style="left: 80.7408px; top: 886.942px; font-size: 15.45px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.890423);" data-canvas-width="386.325">nevertheless reveals certain specificities, such as divergent life</div><div style="left: 80.7408px; top: 910.271px; font-size: 15.45px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.892481);" data-canvas-width="386.3550000000001">expectancy and different values regarding ageing. The authors</div><div style="left: 80.7408px; top: 933.601px; font-size: 15.45px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.862913);" data-canvas-width="386.355">present some recommendations for the development of care</div><div style="left: 80.7408px; top: 956.93px; font-size: 15.45px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.940383);" data-canvas-width="386.3249999999999">for old persons with mental disorders, based on the general</div><div style="left: 80.7408px; top: 980.26px; font-size: 15.45px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.903367);" data-canvas-width="386.32499999999993">recommendations made by the World Health Organization</div><div style="left: 80.7408px; top: 1003.59px; font-size: 15.45px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.961406);" data-canvas-width="386.3250000000001">(WHO) in the World Health Report 2001 (WHR 2001), and</div><div style="left: 80.7408px; top: 1026.92px; font-size: 15.45px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.928591);" data-canvas-width="386.325">by the WHO and the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) in</div>some consensus statements on psychiatry of the elderly.

scholarly journals Struggling for existence—Life situation experiences of older persons with mental disorders

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 18422 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gunilla Martinsson ◽  
Ingegerd Fagerberg ◽  
Christina Lindholm ◽  
Lena Wiklund-Gustin
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Older Persons ◽  
Life Situation

scholarly journals Approval of psychotherapy and medication for the treatment of mental disorders over the lifespan. An age period cohort analysis

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Van der Auwera ◽  
G. Schomerus ◽  
S. E. Baumeister ◽  
H. Matschinger ◽  
M. Angermeyer
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Older Persons ◽  
Cohort Analysis ◽  
Specific Treatment ◽  
Treatment Recommendations ◽  
Special Treatment ◽  
Treatment Preferences ◽  
Period Effects ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Time Period

Aims.Previous cross-sectional studies revealed inconsistent results regarding mental health treatment preferences among the general population. In particular, it is unclear to what extent specific age groups approve psychotherapy or psychotropic medication for the treatment of mental disorders. We explore whether treatment recommendations of either psychotherapy or psychiatric medication change over the lifespan which includes age-related effects due to increasing age of a person, cohort effects that reflect specific opinions during the time a person was born and period effects that reflect societal changes.Methods.Using data from three identical population surveys in Germany from 1990, 2001 and 2011 (combinedn= 9046), we performed age-period-cohort analyses to determine the pure age, birth cohort and time period effects associated with the specific treatment recommendations for a person with either depression or schizophrenia, using logistic Partial Least-Squares regression models.Results.For both disorders, approval of both psychotherapy and medication for a person with mental illness increases with age. At the same time, younger cohorts showed stronger recommendations particularly for psychotherapy (OR around 1.07 per decade). The strongest effects could be observed for time period with an increase in recommendation between 1990 and 2001 with odds ratio of 2.36 in depression and 2.97 in schizophrenia, respectively. In general, the treatment option that showed the strongest increase in recommendation was medication for schizophrenia and psychotherapy for depression.Conclusion.Underutilisation of psychotherapy in old age seems not to reflect treatment preferences of older persons. Thus, special treatment approaches need to be offered for this group that seems to be willing for psychotherapy but do not yet use it. Cohort patterns suggest that approval of psychotherapy among older persons will likely further increase in the coming years as these people get older. Finally, strong period effects underpin the importance of changing attitudes in the society. These could reflect reporting changes about psychiatric topics in the media or a general increase in the perception of treatment options. Nevertheless, more treatment offers especially for older people are needed.

scholarly journals Being altruistically egoistic—Nursing aides’ experiences of caring for older persons with mental disorders

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 7530 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gunilla Martinsson ◽  
Lena Wiklund-Gustin ◽  
Christina Lindholm ◽  
Ingegerd Fagerberg
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Older Persons ◽  
Nursing Aides

Reductionist thinking and animal models in neuropsychiatric research

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole M. Baran
Keyword(s):  
Animal Models ◽  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Neuropsychiatric Disorders ◽  
Model Organisms ◽  
Developmental Genetic ◽  
Term Study ◽  
Genetic And Environmental Factors ◽  
Mechanisms Of Plasticity

AbstractReductionist thinking in neuroscience is manifest in the widespread use of animal models of neuropsychiatric disorders. Broader investigations of diverse behaviors in non-model organisms and longer-term study of the mechanisms of plasticity will yield fundamental insights into the neurobiological, developmental, genetic, and environmental factors contributing to the “massively multifactorial system networks” which go awry in mental disorders.

Assessing Mental and Behavioral Disorder Impairment: Overview of Sixth Edition Approaches

2008 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Norma Leclair ◽  
Steve Leclair ◽  
Robert Barth
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Behavioral Disorders ◽  
Psychotic Disorders ◽  
Behavioral Disorder ◽  
Behavioral Impairment ◽  
Central Nervous System Damage ◽  
Brain Functioning ◽  
Sixth Edition ◽  
Diagnostic And Statistical Manual ◽  
Mental And Behavioral Disorders

Abstract Chapter 14, Mental and Behavioral Disorders, in the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment (AMA Guides), Sixth Edition, defines a process for assessing permanent impairment, including providing numeric ratings, for persons with specific mental and behavioral disorders. These mental disorders are limited to mood disorders, anxiety disorders, and psychotic disorders, and this chapter focuses on the evaluation of brain functioning and its effects on behavior in the absence of evident traumatic or disease-related objective central nervous system damage. This article poses and answers questions about the sixth edition. For example, this is the first since the second edition (1984) that provides a numeric impairment rating, and this edition establishes a standard, uniform template to translate human trauma or disease into a percentage of whole person impairment. Persons who conduct independent mental and behavioral evaluation using this chapter should be trained in psychiatry or psychology; other users should be experienced in psychiatric or psychological evaluations and should have expertise in the diagnosis and treatment of mental and behavioral disorders. The critical first step in determining a mental or behavioral impairment rating is to document the existence of a definitive diagnosis based on the current edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The article also enumerates the psychiatric disorders that are considered ratable in the sixth edition, addresses use of the sixth edition during independent medical evaluations, and answers additional questions.

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