Citation

Shah A. Rev. Clin. Gerontol. 2009; 19(2): 119-134.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2009, Cambridge University Press)

DOI

10.1017/S0959259809990190

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This review examines the demographic changes, the epidemiology of mental disorders and suicides, the potential risk and protective factors, access to secondary care old age psychiatry services (OAPSs) and the policy context pertaining to older people from ethnic minority groups in the United Kingdom. The number of older people from ethnic minority groups is increasing. The prevalence of mental disorders in older people from ethnic minority groups is either similar to or higher than that in the indigenous population. Therefore, the number of older people from ethnic minority groups with psychiatric morbidity is also increasing. Ethnic minority older people also have inequity of access to secondary care OAPSs. There is an urgent need to develop and implement practical strategies to improve access by older people from ethnic minority groups to OAPSs. © 2009 Cambridge University Press.

Language: en

Keywords

Depression; suicide; United Kingdom; prevalence; Dementia; review; mental disease; mental health care; elderly care; health care access; ethnic group; gerontopsychiatry; Old age psychiatry; Black and ethnic minority; Ethnic minority; Psychogeriatrics