Aisenberg-Shafran Daniela
Clinical Psychology of Adulthood and Aging, Ruppin Academic Center, Emek Hefer, Israel.
Front Psychol. 2022 Sep 20;13:994495. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.994495. eCollection 2022.
Psychopathology in late life does not always meet the criterion for a psychiatric diagnosis. Nevertheless, it affects the aging person, their family, employers, and society as a whole. Making psychotherapy accessible for older adults, allowing aging in place, must overcome barriers of mobility, stigma, and emotional difficulty to ask for help. Hence, dedicated counseling and treatment centers should be established in the local authorities for the older adults and their caregivers. Such a local center is described, providing low-cost psychotherapy within an academic environment, accompanied by research to promote suitable therapy of older adults, as well as training programs for professional therapists, not just psychologists, with unique emphasis on late-life psychopathology. This model should be implemented, the more the merrier.
晚年的精神病理学并不总是符合精神疾病诊断标准。然而，它会影响老年人、他们的家庭、雇主以及整个社会。让老年人能够获得心理治疗，实现就地养老，必须克服行动不便、污名化以及寻求帮助时的情感障碍等问题。因此，地方当局应为老年人及其照顾者设立专门的咨询和治疗中心。本文描述了这样一个地方中心，它在学术环境中提供低成本心理治疗，同时开展研究以促进对老年人的适当治疗，还为专业治疗师（不仅是心理学家）提供培训项目，特别关注晚年精神病理学。这种模式应该得到推广，越多越好。
