Mental Health and The Older Citizen

Chapter 12: Mental Health and the Older Citizen

Overview:

• Defines mental health and its affects on citizenship
• Explains the four main psychiatric conditions affecting older people:
  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Dementia
  • Delirium
• Discusses the range of physical, social and psychological functions that can be adversely affected by mental illness

Description:

Anxiety and depressive disorders, dementia and delirium are common mental health conditions that affect ageing people. These psychiatric conditions are discussed in detail in this chapter as well as how these problems affect citizenship in terms of community care.

Topics:

• Introduction
• Citizenship and mental health
• Psychiatric conditions
• Anxiety
• Depressive disorders
• Dementia
• Delirium
• The mental health of older people as an issue of citizenship
• What should be assessed?
• Conclusion
• References

Speaker / Author:

Mike Hazelton

Registered Nurse, Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy. Associate Professor and Head of the School of Nursing at Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia.

Prior to his current job, Mike Hazelton was Associate Professor and Head of Nursing at the University of Tasmania. Mike is a well-known contributor to mental health nursing both in Australia and abroad and has published widely on mental health issues in the fields of nursing and sociology. At present he is Editor of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Mental Health Nursing.

Michael Clinton

Registered Nurse, Bachelor of Arts (Honours), Doctor of Philosophy. Professor and Director, Centre for Nursing Research and Development at Curtin University of Technology and Professorial Fellow in Clinical Nursing at the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth.

Michael Clinton is a nurse and sociologist with nursing, nurse education and health service management experience in the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia. His current research interests are mental health, aged care and advanced clinical nursing practice. Michael is President of the Australian and New Zealand College of Mental Health Nurses.

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