Here is a preview of our new show which features the CarFit program. This free educational program offered by Eldersource and the Area on Health Education Center in Jacksonville Florida helps seniors to discover how fitting in their car can help them maintain and improve their driving. Using a 12 point checklist, CarFit helps them stay safe and mobile. Be watching for the new video!
Did you know that in Florida alone an estimated 785,000 people aged 65 and older have an emotional or mental health problem that needs professional attention? Depressed individuals use 3 times as much health care, their medical costs are twice as high and their death rate after a heart attack is 3 times higher than persons not suffering from depression. And that suicide rate for older persons is 50 percent higher than all other age groups.
In this second part of our series on Senior Depression our guests Hannach Hackworth with Urban Jacksonville Mental Wellness and Cornelia Rappoport of Apex Home Healthcare provide solutions for treatment of depression. They also include several success stories of patients that have recovered and found hope in various and alternative ways.
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Senior Depression Part 2 Treatment and Success Stories [ 15:49 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadHere are a few useful links.
About Depression
Depression in Older Adults and the Elderly
Click here for a free handout on depression Older Adults with Mental Illnesses
The Informed Eldercare Podcast is produced by Bold City Media, your expert podcasting company in Jacksonville, Florida.
According to the National Institutes of Health, of the 35 million Americans age 65 and older over 2 million suffer from full blown depression. And another 5 million suffer from less severe forms of the illness.
If your caring for an elder that may be suffering from Depression this episode will help you identify some of the symptoms as well as solutions for treatment.
As a caregiver there are many ways of approaching your elder in hopes of them being more receptive to treatment. Many times it’s simply listening to the elder and allowing them to expressive their feelings in the form of talk therapy. Another approach to treatment may be the language you use to connect with them. Whatever the symptoms are, understand their there is help and hope for them.
In this episode Hannah Hackworth with Urban Jacksonville and Cornelia Rappoport with Apex Home Health Care describe how to identify Depression in your elder as well as the services and treatment available.
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Senior Depression Part 1 of 2 How to recognize and treat [ 17:46 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadClick here for a free handout on depression Older Adults with Mental Illnesses
The Informed Eldercare Podcast is produced by Bold City Media, your expert podcasting company in Jacksonville, Florida.
Informed Eldercare is a podcast production of Bold City Media LLC. It is designed to help caregivers of an elder with information and resources while offering hope. We interview the experts in elder affairs, elder law, hospice care, dementia-alzheimers, emergency planning and transportation alternatives just to name a few.
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