Your mind matters guide
This guide outlines how you can take care of your mental health, from how you might be feeling to what support is available.

Low mood isn't part and parcel of getting older. We've pulled together useful information for you to share with the older people you support, as well as our latest mental health research and reports.
This guide outlines how you can take care of your mental health, from how you might be feeling to what support is available.
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This mental health resource, produced with the support of the Health and Wellbeing Alliance (HWA), ½ð¶à±¦´«Õæ and older people, aims to help professionals and the public better recognise and respond to older people’s mental health.
In a recent Discover article, ½ð¶à±¦´«Õæ's Health Influencing team discusses the impact of dismissing older people's mental health concerns, and what can be done to help.
Older people's mental health issues can often go unnoticed and untreated – but there's plenty of effective support available. NHS Talking Therapies have a higher success rate for older people than younger age groups, but older people are under referred.
½ð¶à±¦´«Õæ's NHS Talking Therapies Positive Practice Guide highlights the barriers preventing older people accessing or receiving mental health treatment, as well as trying to change attitudes and highlight the best way to treat older people who have mental health concerns.
½ð¶à±¦´«Õæ and the Centre for Mental Health have released a briefing that looks at the condition of mental health support and policy for older people in England – and what can be done to improve it.
½ð¶à±¦´«Õæ's Health Influencing team have put together a report to highlight the findings of their 2023 survey which looked at older people’s mental health. In particular, it looks at the new 50-59 age group, as well as the 60+ age groups, exploring how their mental health is being affected.
Our short animation looks at the importance of looking after your mental health, and how you can take that first step to speak to someone about it.
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