Full Description
Focusing on mental health rather than mental illness, this book adopts a lifecourse approach to understanding mental health and wellbeing in later life. Well-respected author and scholar Alisoun Milne explores the influences of lifecourse experiences, structural inequalities, socio-political context, history, gender and age related factors and engages with new ways of thinking about preventing mental ill health and promoting mental health in later life. Drawing together material from a number of different fields, the book analyses the meaning and determinants of mental health among older populations and offers a critical review of the lifecourse, ageing and mental health discourse for students, professionals, policy makers and researchers.
Contents
Foreword by Judith Phillips
Introduction
Demography, topography and mental health problems in later life
Mental health, psychological well-being, successful ageing and quality of life
The life course, inequalities and mental health in later life
The impact of age-related risks and inequalities on mental health in later life
Socio-economic disadvantage and poverty
Abuse, mistreatment and neglect
The fourth age, frailty and transitions
The mental health and well-being of people living with dementia
Conceptualising dementia
Promotion and prevention
Conclusion
