Elevating Mental Health for Older Adults
We’re Here to Help
The Center For Mental Health & Aging Is Improving Mental Health For Older Adults By Providing…
1. ACCESS
We’re improving access to mental health care by building the only nationwide provider directory of licensed mental health providers who specialize with older adults.
2. EDUCATION
We provide evidence-based, culturally competent and inclusive, continuing education training to mental health, senior care, and healthcare professionals. This helps to ensure that professionals have specialized training to meet the mental health needs of older adults. We focus on mental health and related topics (e.g., health psychology, sleep psychology, rehabilitation psychology, neuropsychology, etc).
3. CONSULTATION
We consult directly with mental health, long-term care, and senior care agencies focused on the mental health care of older adults and sexual expression in the context of dementia disorders.
Choose your path…
to improving mental health for older adults
Join Our Provider Directory
Are you a licensed therapist, psychiatrist, or neuropsychologist specializing with older adults? You have a unique skill set older adults and their families need. Join the only geriatric mental health provider directory in the nation.
Training for Professionals
Say good-bye to boring continuing education workshops with our top-rated, evidence-based, culturally competent continuing education workshops for mental health & senior care professionals.
Professional Consultation
We consult directly with mental health, health care, long-term care, and senior care providers and agencies focused on mental health/behavioral health and sexual expression in the context of dementia disorders.
Older adults with a positive view of aging live 7.5 years longer than those with a negative view of aging.
Source: Levy et al (2002)
Expert Guides on Common Topics
As you help your older loved one with mental health or memory loss concerns, the information can be overwhelming and stressful. We get it. That’s why we’ve created a series of expert guides on the most common mental health and aging topics.
