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POLICY AND PRACTICE REVIEWS article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Aging and Public Health
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1515440
This article is part of the Research Topic Reviews and Applications of Implementation Research in Aging and Public Health View all 12 articles
The potential of single session intervention approaches to enhance the mental health and resilience of older adults, care partners, and healthcare systems Authors Removed for Review Word Count: 7,615 (including references) SSIS FOR OLDER ADULTS
Provisionally accepted- 1 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, United States
- 2 Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States
- 3 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States
Single-session interventions (SSIs) are mental health (MH) interventions that intentionally involve a single encounter. In this commentary, we outline issues with existing models of MH care for older adults & their care partners, how SSIs can address barriers, and considerations for research. We encourage the development of SSIs to increase accessibility, scalability, participation, and cost-effectiveness of mental health interventions.
Keywords: Single session, brief intervention, older adults, Care partners, Caregivers, Mental Health
Received: 22 Oct 2024; Accepted: 13 Feb 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Bannon, Rapoport, Applebaum and Schleider. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Sarah Bannon, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, United States
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