HLTHAGE 3N03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cardiovascular Disease, Bulimia Nervosa, Clinical Pathway
14 Nov 2018
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"unique" psychosocial risks factors: negative life events and ongoing difficulties. Survival hypothesis: extent to which the negative life events impact someone"s mental health: e. g. death of a spouse, moving into a long term care facility, perceived as negatively by the individual. Idea is that individuals as they age, they get used to surviving these life events. Strong indicator of risk for mental illness or mental health problems: diagnosis of cancer, cardiovascular disease, all signal of advancing age - we don"t like the idea of advancing age. It can lead into mental health problems and mental illness - since it"s outside of your control (we"re all going to die, we probably can"t control that) Functional decline mental health problems and illness increases. Myth: mental illnesses/problems are untreatable in older adults because they are set in their ways. False: no matter how old the person is, you can always treat a mental illness or mental health problem.
