Next Avenue Special Report Series: Talking About It - Aging and Mental Health
Next Avenue has produced a special report presented by The John A. Hartford Foundation on "Talking About It: Aging and Mental Health."
This year-long initiative is designed to help reduce stigma and advance conversation around mental illness in older adults. "Talking About It: Aging and Mental Health" includes a portfolio of informational articles from experts in the field and first-person stories that demonstrate the power and impact of talking openly about mental illness and mental health in older adults.
The Next Avenue series focuses on action, giving readers information, advice and tools to challenge stigma and rethink mental health as we age. Articles in this special report series include:
- How Birding Can Help Our Mental Health
- How DC Grandparents Are Improving Community Mental Health
- An Estate Clean Out Can Weigh on Mental Health
- The Age Wave is Here, and Age-Friendly Care is the Solution
- What You Do to Lift Your Spirits
- Strategies to Ease the Impact of Minor Injury on Mental Health
- Ask an Expert: Solutions to Social Isolation in Rural Communities
- The Doctor Is Online: Talking Teletherapy
- Strength in Numbers: How Group Fitness Can Improve Your Mental Health
- Recognizing Depression in Older Men
- July Is BIPOC Mental Health Awareness Month
- Mental Health in a Changing World
- How the VA Cares for Veterans' Minds and Bodies
- How Mental Health Stigma Shapes Lives
- After 50 Years, I'm Not Keeping This Secret: I've Long Been Diagnosed With Mental Illness and I'm OK if You Know
- Everybody Deserves Connection!
- Mental Health: Fortifying Your Emotional Resiliency
- The Mental Health Toll of Climate Change
- 'The Golden Girls' Cracked the Code on Aging Well: Limit Social Isolation and Loneliness
- Overcoming Depression, From Home
- Seeing Mental Illness
- For Improved Mental Health, Add Meditation to Exercise
- Quiet Quitting: My Experience
- Can a Digital Buddy Affect Mental Health in Older Adults?
- Is Vitamin D Key in Managing Mental Health?
- Are Older Adults More Open to Discussing Their Mental Health?
- What's Love Got to Do with Mental Health?
Next Avenue also has a call for videos upto a minute in length - or photos - that answers the question, what do you do to lift your spirits?
Next Avenue has published a number of special report series including:
- The 24/7 Caregiver
- Aging with Disabilities in America
- Future of Eldercare
- Strengthening Rural Health Care for Older Adults
- Living to the End of Life
- Age-Friendly Health Care
- Still Here, Still Positive
- Taking Care
