Mental Health Problems of Old Age People

Challenges and Solutions for Mental Wellbeing in India

Abstract

In India, mental wellbeing has not yet achieved its due acknowledgment. Public wellbeing is afflicted with several problems that hinder its programs from improving and advancing. This essay is a narrative analysis that discusses the diverse issues confronting mental wellbeing in India. The article explains various individual and general individual mental health issues and explores in depth the existence of what needs to be learned to solve them. The concerns vary from Indian ageing trends to elderly marital problems, geriatric addiction, diabetes, homosexual, queer, bisexual and transgender ageing. Different policy and study concerns which question mental wellbeing are also addressed. There is a stress on the need to bring mental wellbeing into primary care, the need to prepare primary care staff and preventive work for prevention of suicide of older adults. The article discusses these issues with the goal of introducing the numerous mental wellbeing problems in India during the current period to the clinician.