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The AMA argued that the Australian government lacked a structural plan for mental health management and that the future of mental health treatment in Australia was in a dangerous position. The Australian government spent $9.1 billion on mental health related services in 2017. This averaged out to $375 per person, a rise from $359 in the year prior.
With this rise in chronic diseases as a result of the growing elderly population, health care services are in high demand. [15] In 2012, 98% of Australia's elderly population visited a health expert and 57% of those aged 65 and above visited a specialist, which is 29% greater than those aged below 65. [15]
In 2015, the median age of death from dementia was 88.6 years, compared to 81.9 years for all deaths. [3] Approximately 20% of all dementia deaths occurred in people aged 75–84 and 70% in those 85 years of age and over. [3] Dementia mostly affects the elderly with approximately 95% of all dementia deaths occurring after the age of 74. [3]
Data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare shows that out-of-pocket payments increased four-and-a-half times faster than government funding in 2014–15. [62] This has led to large numbers of patients skipping treatment or medicine. [63] Australian out-of-pocket health expenses are the third highest in the developed world. [62] [1]
Aged Care Services, Wahroonga, Sydney Aged care in Australia (also known as elderly care), is the provision of services to meet the needs of older people in Australia.It includes both residential aged care (nursing homes) as well as services provided in the home, such as personal care, home nursing, respite services, mobility and dexterity assistance, and the provision of equipment and aids.
Up to 15% of the 10 year life expectancy gap compared to non-Indigenous Australians has been attributed to mental health disorders. [54] Mental health should be taken into consideration in the Aboriginal concept of health and well-being. [55] In the incidence of children and the elderly many problems tend to be hidden.
Geriatric psychiatry, also known as geropsychiatry, psychogeriatrics or psychiatry of old age, is a branch of medicine and a subspecialty of psychiatry dealing with the study, prevention, and treatment of neurodegenerative, cognitive impairment, and mental disorders in people of old age.
Geriatric psychology began in 1978 with a spike in interest in mental health and the effects of aging. There was a slow increase in the number of aging adults in the U.S. population. There was a small group of 11 people who met together to talk about late-life mental health needs and the field of geriatrics.