Defining the Public Health Role in Depression and Depressive Disorders for Older Adults

University of Washington: Health Promotion Research Center

Topics:
Aging & Elderly Health | Mental Health

This project involves using existing evidence to identify effective interventions for older adults (60 years of age or older) with depression. Five reviewers, guided by a panel of nine experts in health service interventions for depression, are developing a strategy for searching the scientific literature and defining the criteria for including studies. The reviewers will use a structured tool for collecting the relevant design, intervention, and outcome data for each study, and they will rank the interventions by their ability to directly produce positive effects and the ease of changing them for various populations. The researchers will then focus on identifying the interventions particularly suitable for dissemination to older adults through the public health and aging services networks and on making recommendations about how such dissemination could be accomplished—including the structural, process, and policy components.

 

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