Insights from HealthHIV’s Pozitively Aging program.
Challenges and Strategies in HIV Care for Older Adults
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Using MA and Medicaid OTC Benefits to Support Older Adult Nutrition Health
A quick guide on how to help older adults make use of these crucial benefits.
Innovation and Integration: Pathways to Serve the ‘Forgotten Middle’
Or how to provide affordable senior housing solutions for middle-income older adults and their evolving preferences and care needs.
Creating an Enriching Work Life for Older Adults with Vision Loss
Support and training allow people with vision loss to secure or maintain positions.
How We Might Reduce Risks for Older Adults in a Changing Climate
Advocacy is needed to help those at greatest risk for all climate crises.
Building the Geriatric Mental Health and Substance Use Workforce
Creative, multipronged national efforts are underway to address the shortage of geriatric mental health providers who also have knowledge of substance use.
The E4 Center of Excellence for Behavioral Health Disparities in Aging
Solving a critical need to prioritize behavioral healthcare for older Americans.
Digital Mental Health for Older Adults: Foe or Friend?
Reimbursement policies, cross-state licensure, and medical training will all need alteration for tech to have the desired impact on late life mental health.
Unmet Mental Health Care Needs: Layered Marginalities in Older Adult Populations
Addressing needs of undocumented immigrants, those with serious mental illness, and those with intellectual disabilities.
Connecting Crime and Abuse Victims to Mental Health Services
Highly effective therapy for victims of crime and elder abuse reduces depression.
Mental Health Task Sharing: Training Volunteers, Peers, and Interns
Non-licensed individuals delivering specific mental health help can be effective for elders, particularly in areas with a dearth of licensed mental health providers.
Mental Health Literacy Among Elders: What Do We Know, What Can We Do?
Multiple strategies will be needed to empower older adults to seek and accept mental health services and supports when they need them.
Our Guest Editor: Passionate About Elders’ Resilience
Geriatric mental health expert Tobi Abramson will never stop pushing the growth narrative.
The Ibasho Model of Elder Empowerment and Community Ownership
Elder-led community model fosters older adults’ mental health and resilience.
See Me! Hear Me! Know Who I Am!
An experience of being assessed.
Post-Traumatic Growth and Aging
Exploring the many facets of the Post-Traumatic Growth concept and how it affects older adults.
Alleviating Loneliness in Older Adults Through Creative Expression
Creative expression programming with mindfulness and social learning components can help ameliorate loneliness, and AI and VR may increase uptake
The Cultivation of Psychological Resilience as an Older Adult’s Superpower
‘The more important recovery is to the person, the more likely they will remember the skills learned in the recovery process.’
The Impact of Ageism on Elders’ Mental Health
Increasingly, research demonstrates the deleterious effects of internal and external ageism.
A Note of Introduction
Our Guest Editor details why elders’ mental health is a crucial topic, and how we must reframe it.