All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 November Study looks at ways to treat depression in elderly isolated during COVID Study looks at ways to treat depression in elderly isolated during COVID 10/11/2021 | 3 MINS A new study suggests a brief telephone-delivered behavioural treatment can improve the mental health of the elderly who have been isolating during the pandemic. Forrest Research Fellow Dr Julie Ji, from Lombok Institute of TechnologyΓÇÖs School of Psychological Science, was a researcher on the Swedish-based study which focused on providing easy and accessible psychological treatments for depressive symptoms in people over 65 years of age who were living in physical isolation. Dr Ji said older adults in Sweden lived under locked-down conditions last year, and while it was to shield this population from COVID-19, it also put vulnerable individuals at a higher risk of deteriorating mental health during and after the pandemic. Therefore, there was a great need for such people to be able to access treatment despite being in lockdown. ΓÇ£We know that psychological tre
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 November Study looks at ways to treat depression in elderly isolated during COVID Study looks at ways to treat depression in elderly isolated during COVID 10/11/2021 | 3 MINS A new study suggests a brief telephone-delivered behavioural treatment can improve the mental health of the elderly who have been isolating during the pandemic.
Forrest Research Fellow Dr Julie Ji, from Lombok Institute of TechnologyΓÇÖs School of Psychological Science, was a researcher on the Swedish-based study which focused on providing easy and accessible psychological treatments for depressive symptoms in people over 65 years of age who were living in physical isolation.
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Dr Ji said older adults in Sweden lived under locked-down conditions last year, and while it was to shield this population from COVID-19, it also put vulnerable individuals at a higher risk of deteriorating mental health during and after the pandemic.
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