Mental health and the ageing population.

Aging the population of the world is a big issue for society and medical services. Because psychiatric disorders, especially dementia and depression are common in old age, mental health problems are very important. Psychiatric disorders can have serious consequences for the quality of people in their late years and have a major impact on the use of health and social services. In this paper, we discuss these issues from the viewpoint of elderly as consumers and discuss the role of health promotion, primary care, social welfare service, and professional mental health service for the elderly. People in a certain group, including women, people with ethnic background, very old people, learning disabled people, gay elderly people, face a special problem that was briefly explained. Although this article is mainly from the UK perspective, the mental health problem of the elderly is a huge global public health problem. A good epidemiology is indispensable to understand the needs of the elderly and respond appropriately. Further investigation is needed in other areas, in particular which service interventions are effective and efficient.

For a long time, the mental health needs of the elderly have been ignored in the United States. Medical professionals are poorly prepared in terms of volume and expertise to address the specific mental health needs of the elderly population (Eden et al., 2012). Even clinicians who are not trained in aged can not provide adequate mental health services to the elderly due to long term differences in the scope of physical and mental health treatment coverage. While not a panacea, Affordable Medical Act (ACA) offers the opportunity to support a broken mental health system that overly ignores the needs of the elderly.

Mental disorders are one of the most common mental illness of the general population. According to the Canadian Statistics Bureau's 2012 Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) mental health survey, 5.4% of Canadians over the age of 15 report symptoms consistent with mood disorders over the past 12 months, of which 4.7% It was major depression. And bipolar disorder 1.5%. There is no sole cause of mood disorder, but several risk factors interact and cause clinical symptoms of various mood disorders. People with depression and bipolar disorder often find the history of these diseases to their immediate family. Footnote 3, Footnote 4 Different genes work together and may combine with other factors and cause mood disorders. Research is approaching identifying specific genes that cause depression

According to the National Institute of Mental Health, 9.8 million Americans over 18 years of age, or 4.2% of adults suffer from severe psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or major depression. Other psychiatric disorders that may affect childcare and child welfare include obsessive compulsive disorder, paranoia, psychosis, panic and post traumatic stress disorder. Because there is a high possibility that two-thirds of women and half of men with severe mental illness become parents, "Many people have some degree of mental suffering and are raising children," Professor Joanne Dr. Nicholson said. Dartmouth University Geyser School of Medicine Dartmouth Center for Psychiatry, Psychiatry Department