According to an article recently published in The Conversation, 52% of aged care residents have symptoms of depression, compared with 10-15% of older people living in the community. The author of Reducing depression in nursing homes requires more than just antidepressants, Sunil Bhar, is the Convenor of Clinical Psychology Programs at Swinburne University of Technology, and the co-founder of Swinburne's Wellbeing Clinic for Older Adults. He discusses various psychological interventions that can help people going into aged care overcome some of their issues and improve mental health care in these facilities. "Rather than simply medicating the growing proportion of Australians who are admitted to aged care, we need to treat the whole person and the underlying causes of their depression."
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Thursday, July 30, 2015
Reducing depressing in nursing home residents
According to an article recently published in The Conversation, 52% of aged care residents have symptoms of depression, compared with 10-15% of older people living in the community. The author of Reducing depression in nursing homes requires more than just antidepressants, Sunil Bhar, is the Convenor of Clinical Psychology Programs at Swinburne University of Technology, and the co-founder of Swinburne's Wellbeing Clinic for Older Adults. He discusses various psychological interventions that can help people going into aged care overcome some of their issues and improve mental health care in these facilities. "Rather than simply medicating the growing proportion of Australians who are admitted to aged care, we need to treat the whole person and the underlying causes of their depression."
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