Intro -- Depressed Older Adults: Education and Screening -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Depression Among Older Adults -- Why Focus on Depression? -- Defining Depression -- Epidemiology of Depression Among Older Adults -- Risk Factors for Late-Life Depression -- Depression and Suicide -- Treatment Options for Older Adults -- Detecting Depression in Older Adults -- How Can Providers of Aging Services Help? -- Mental Health Education -- Early Intervention and Depression Screening -- Linkage to Treatment -- Who Can Use EASE-D? -- 2. Evidence-Based Models of Intervention for Older Adults With Depression -- What Is an Evidence-Based Program and Practice? -- Why Use an Evidence-Based Program to Work With Older Adults With Depression? -- How Do I Find an Evidence-Based Model and What Will It Involve? -- Therapeutic Models: Problem Solving Therapy and Behavior Activation -- How Do I Play for an Evidence-Based Model? -- Evidence-Based Programs Are Effective: So Why Use EASE-D? -- 3. Educating About Depression: Approaches for Older Adults, Their Service Providers, and Community Members -- What Is Depression, Anyway? -- The Role of Education for Service Providers -- Health and Mental Health Literacy -- Educating Older Adults About Depression -- Different Approaches to Mental Health Education -- Other Educational Approaches -- Single Session Versus Multisession Workshops -- Developing a Multisession Workshop Series -- Marketing a Mental Health Workshop -- Recruiting Participation -- Additional Tips for Success -- Depression Screening: A Component of Mental Health Education -- Educating Providers of Health Care, Aging Services, and Community Gatekeepers -- Final Words About Mental Health Education -- Checklist for Providing Education to Older Adults and Their Providers -- 4. Implementing Depression Screening.

Concerns About Depression Screenings in Community-Based Settings -- What Is Depression Screening? -- Evaluating Depression Screening Tools -- What Depression Screening Tools Exist? -- Screening Tools for Suicide -- Can I Modify Screening Instruments? -- Methods of Administering a Screening Instrument -- What Should You Do When Someone Is at Risk for Depression? -- What Are Important Factors to Consider When Choosing a Screening Tool? -- Final Words About Depression Screening -- 5. Connecting Older Adults to Treatment: Pretreatment Care Management -- Depression Care Management in the Health Care and Aging Services Sectors -- Who Should Conduct Pretreatment Care Management? -- Developing the Pretreatment Care Management Protocol -- Pretreatment Care Management: By Phone or in Person? -- Frequency and Duration of Pretreatment Care Management -- When to End Pretreatment Care Management Services -- The Roles of Pretreatment Care Managers -- Developing Data Collection Instruments -- Added Incentives to Pretreatment Care Management Service -- A Final Word About the Benefi ts of Pretreatment Care Management -- Checklist for Providing Pretreatment Care Management -- 6. Developing Program Materials for Outreach and Education -- Informational Material for Service Providers -- Outreach Material for Older Adults -- Educational Materials for Older Adults -- Resources for Creating Printed Materials for Older Adults -- Resources When Writing for People With Vision Impairments -- Educational Materials for the Primary Care Physician -- Final Tips for Success -- Checklist for Developing Materials for Older Adults and Their Providers -- 7. How to Implement EASE-D in Your Community -- Creating Collaborative Partnerships for Program Implementation -- Staffing and Budgetary Considerations -- Conducting a Programmatic Needs Assessment.

Conducting a Needs Assessment -- The Pros and Cons of On-Site Versus Mailed Questionnaires -- Using Interviews as Part of Needs Assessment -- Focus Groups -- Understanding Data: Quantitative and Qualitative -- Constructing a Questionnaire for a Needs Assessment -- Data Analysis: Questionnaires and Focus Group Interviews -- Developing Program Evaluation Tools -- Program Evaluation: Outputs and Outcomes -- Implementing EASE-D in Your Community -- Checklist for Implementing EASE-D -- 8. The Benefits and Challenges of Program Implementation -- The Benefits of EASE-D -- Troubleshooting Challenges in Implementing EASE-D -- Final Words About EASE-D -- Index.

Late life depression has become increasingly prevalent among older adults. This book presents guidelines to help enable aging and social service programs to establish a mental health education and screening program focused on late-life depression. This 2-time award-winning model presented in this book offers a practical and culturally-sensitiveapproach to mental health education which can be adapted by service programs seeking to identify clinical depression among their older adult clientele. Additionally, this program offers professionals serving older adults an opportunity to increase their knowledge about clinical depression among older adults; develop the skills necessary to identify the signs of clinical depression and suicidal ideation; and create long-standing, collaborative relationships across the professional disciplines of aging, social services, medical and mental health services. Older adults who participate in this program are able to:.: increase their awareness of the role of mental health in their overall quality of life.; identify both long-standing and newly emergent symptoms of clinical depression, a serious mental health condition.; connect to treatment providers within their own communities.

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