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Optimizing Older Adult Mental Health in Support of Healthy Ageing: A Pluralistic Framework to Inform Transformative Change across Community and Healthcare Domains

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  • Salinda Horgan

    (Departments of Rehabilitation Therapy & Psychiatry, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada)

  • Jeanette Prorok

    (School of Rehabilitation Therapy, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada)

  • Katie Ellis

    (Mental Health Commission of Canada, Ottawa, ON K1R 1A4, Canada)

  • Laura Mullaly

    (Mental Health Commission of Canada, Ottawa, ON K1R 1A4, Canada)

  • Keri-Leigh Cassidy

    (Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, Dalhousie, NS B3H 2E2, Canada)

  • Dallas Seitz

    (Departments of Psychiatry & Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada)

  • Claire Checkland

    (Canadian Coalition for Seniors’ Mental Health, Markham, ON L3R 9X9, Canada)

Abstract

This paper describes a pluralistic framework to inform transformative change across community and healthcare domains to optimize the mental health of older adults in support of healthy ageing. An extensive review and analysis of the literature informed the creation of a framework that contextualizes the priority areas of the WHO Decade of Health Ageing (ageism, age-friendly environments, long-term care, and integrated care) with respect to older adult mental health. The framework additionally identifies barriers, facilitators, and strategies for action at macro (social/system), meso (services/supports), and micro (older adults) levels of influence. This conceptual (analytical) framework is intended as a tool to inform planning and decision-making across policy, practice, education and training, research, and knowledge mobilization arenas. The framework described in this paper can be used by countries around the globe to build evidence, set priorities, and scale up promising practices (both nationally and sub-nationally) to optimize the mental health and healthy ageing trajectories of older adults as a population.

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  • Salinda Horgan & Jeanette Prorok & Katie Ellis & Laura Mullaly & Keri-Leigh Cassidy & Dallas Seitz & Claire Checkland, 2024. "Optimizing Older Adult Mental Health in Support of Healthy Ageing: A Pluralistic Framework to Inform Transformative Change across Community and Healthcare Domains," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 21(6), pages 1-21, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:21:y:2024:i:6:p:664-:d:1399869
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