The high prevalence rate and negative impact of mental health diseases have been well-established in the literature. Older patients with psychiatric diseases alone with cognitive impairments or dementia are usually more vulnerable to medical treatment due to the disease’s expensive and lingering nature. On a different note, public-health emergencies, racism, climate change, and other social or policy amendments are all potential risks affecting general treatment approaches, thus exacerbating existing psychiatric and mental health problems for elderly patients. With these factors established, current research also realizes to consider social factors. It has been reported that research on using multidisciplinary approaches to improve general geriatric mental disease treatment outcomes is becoming mainstream. More and more interdisciplinary researchers have taken considerations outside the scope of geriatric mental illness, including social factors, neural mechanisms, genomic factors, and policy guidance. Therefore, potential breakthroughs could be obtained by addressing and figuring out these problems from mechanisms, prevention, promotions, and management, especially by adopting multidisciplinary perspectives.
The goal of the research topic is to transcend the existing document collections of what was already known about multidisciplinary approaches for psychiatric and mental disease treatment in older people with cognitive impairment and dementia. Research suggests that multidisciplinary perspectives and collaboration can provide new insights for future studies. This research topic aims to apply a multidisciplinary perspective from both medical and social aspects (e.g., epidemiology, geriatrics, genomics, psychiatry, sociology, and management) to draw from all kinds of methodologies and theories and provide critical insight, particularly into psychiatric and mental health care mechanism, accessibility, utilization, strategies, social indicators, and outcomes.
The scope of this research topic will include:
1. Relationship between mental health in older people with cognitive impairment and dementia and other pressing public health challenges, e.g., COVID-19, Monkeypox.
2. Policymaking regarding mental health care and rehabilitation for older people with cognitive impairment and dementia, including but not limited to legislation or regulation.
3. Treatments and mechanisms of psychiatric disorders in older people with cognitive impairment and dementia.
4. Connection with other potential complications and comorbidities, e.g., hypertension, diabetes.
5. Social indicators, e.g., socio-economy status and social support.
The high prevalence rate and negative impact of mental health diseases have been well-established in the literature. Older patients with psychiatric diseases alone with cognitive impairments or dementia are usually more vulnerable to medical treatment due to the disease’s expensive and lingering nature. On a different note, public-health emergencies, racism, climate change, and other social or policy amendments are all potential risks affecting general treatment approaches, thus exacerbating existing psychiatric and mental health problems for elderly patients. With these factors established, current research also realizes to consider social factors. It has been reported that research on using multidisciplinary approaches to improve general geriatric mental disease treatment outcomes is becoming mainstream. More and more interdisciplinary researchers have taken considerations outside the scope of geriatric mental illness, including social factors, neural mechanisms, genomic factors, and policy guidance. Therefore, potential breakthroughs could be obtained by addressing and figuring out these problems from mechanisms, prevention, promotions, and management, especially by adopting multidisciplinary perspectives.
The goal of the research topic is to transcend the existing document collections of what was already known about multidisciplinary approaches for psychiatric and mental disease treatment in older people with cognitive impairment and dementia. Research suggests that multidisciplinary perspectives and collaboration can provide new insights for future studies. This research topic aims to apply a multidisciplinary perspective from both medical and social aspects (e.g., epidemiology, geriatrics, genomics, psychiatry, sociology, and management) to draw from all kinds of methodologies and theories and provide critical insight, particularly into psychiatric and mental health care mechanism, accessibility, utilization, strategies, social indicators, and outcomes.
The scope of this research topic will include:
1. Relationship between mental health in older people with cognitive impairment and dementia and other pressing public health challenges, e.g., COVID-19, Monkeypox.
2. Policymaking regarding mental health care and rehabilitation for older people with cognitive impairment and dementia, including but not limited to legislation or regulation.
3. Treatments and mechanisms of psychiatric disorders in older people with cognitive impairment and dementia.
4. Connection with other potential complications and comorbidities, e.g., hypertension, diabetes.
5. Social indicators, e.g., socio-economy status and social support.