Older people’s mental health needs being overlooked due to ageism, report says
by Aine Fox
Mar 05, 2024
3 minutes
Older people’s mental health has too often been disregarded due to systemic ageism, according to a report.
Disregarding their needs is discriminatory and has consequences for the older person, families, communities and public services, the Centre for Mental Health said.
Its report, commissioned by , concluded that there is a “pervasive sense of pessimism and inevitability that normalises poor mental health” among older people, and argued there is a “pressing need to tackle ageist assumptions and expectations about mental
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