Kerryn is a qualified Older Person Mental Health First Aider.
Mental health is important regardless of age. Increased community education is reducing stigma surrounding mental health in older people.
“It is thought that between 10 and 15 per cent of older people experience depression and about 10 per cent experience anxiety.1
Rates of depression among people living in residential aged-care are believed to be much higher, at around 35 per cent.2 The rate of anxiety in these groups is unconfirmed, but believed to be higher than depression. “
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Talk about it and normalise the topic of mental health.
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