Addressing Mental Health in Older Adults: Comparing Past and Present Experiences

Create a title for your project. How can you capture people's attention? Be sure that it is related to your overall research question that you previously developed as a group.

Mental Health in Older Adults, Then and Now”
Addressing the Mental Health of Our Older Adult Communities”
Older Adults and Mental Health: What Are We Doing Wrong?”

 

The introduction will be summarizing your Critical Assignment 1 and concludes with your purpose statement for this project. For example: Therefore, the purpose of this study is to examine the generational differences in attitudes about living options available to one as they age. The introduction section will typically be between 3-
sentences or 75-100 words.

Intro needs to include:
What study is about
Goals of study

 

Address society’s shortcomings regarding senior mental health

 

Therefore, the purpose of this study is to examine the patterns of mental health in older adults; comparing their experiences when they were younger to their experiences now, and exploring other aspects of their mental health in society.”

Please type in your own “Therefore” statement so we can vote on our favorite and critique it to fit the assignment.

 

Be sure to read over Critical Assignment 1 again
Mental health has a critical impact on one’s overall well-being. It is vital that practitioners and other health professionals are prepared to aid older generations in maintaining a strong mental wellness. This study focuses on the mental health of older adults and their past and current experiences with mental illness and depression. The goals of this study are to discover patterns in the interviewees’ answers and use them to promote new approaches to the older generations’ mental and general health. This study also addresses society’s shortcomings when it comes to these things in the community. Therefore, the overall purpose of this study is to examine the patterns of mental health in older adults; comparing their experiences from when they were younger to their experiences now, and exploring other aspects of their mental health in society.

 

The Methods section will describe how you are collecting your data and how you will analyze your data. For all groups, you will be using a thematic analysis guided by an inductive grounded theory approach. You will also want to include how many total interviews were collected. Briefly describe your interview guide by describing the overarching topics of your question and the format, which is a using a semi-structured interview guide. The methods section should also be between 3-4 sentences or between 75-100 words.

Things to include in our methods section:
30 interviews
Age range (youngest-oldest interviewee)
Topics of questions (eg. environment, influences on mental health, past, familial mental illness, etc.)

 

Format (semi-structured interview guide)
If anyone would like to volunteer to write this section, please type in your name next to it! The group can critique it after it’s written.

 

You must include group member contributions on this document. List each group member's name and their role in this draft. For example: Amanda - responsible for drafting the introduction. Phil- responsible for editing the introduction. Karladeveloped the title. Etc.
Type in what you would like to do next to the option for it!
Maddelyn - responsible for developing the title
Zach - responsible for drafting the introduction
Vivian, Maddelyn - responsible for editing the introduction
Joanna - responsible for drafting the methods section
Kamari - also responsible for drafting the methods section
Cheyenne, Maddelyn - responsible for editing the methods section
These contributions will not be the only things we do individually for the assignment. We will all discuss the draft and okay it before turning it in. And if anyone needs assistance with their section, we can all help out.