COVID-19, Mental Health and Aging: A Need for New Knowledge to Bridge Science and Service
As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads around the world, we are starting to see the first waves of epidemiological data1,2 and know that it disproportionately impacts older adults3. However, with this still being a new and rapidly evolving global crisis, there is currently very little known about its broader impact on mental health. Clinicians are gaining early experiences around a range of issues that are highly relevant to the mental health care of older adults4 in the context of COVID-19. Retrospective studies of the 2003 SARS epidemic found that rates of suicide among older adults spiked during the period of the epidemic5.
Source: The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry - Category: Geriatrics Authors: Ipsit V. Vahia, Dan G. Blazer, Gwenn S. Smith, Jordan F. Karp, David C. Steffens, Brent P. Forester, Rajesh Tampi, Marc Agronin, Dilip V. Jeste, Charles F. Reynolds Tags: Editorial Source Type: research
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