APA Monitor Articles on Aging Related Topics
Humanitarian heroes: Averting a crisis
With longevity increasing and fertility rates dropping, Sheung-Tak Cheng, PhD, is nervous. Caregiving systems are already stretched thin, and he's worried that global population aging will finally break them. Read more
Polishing those golden years: Groups rally to expand geropsychology training opportunities
By 2030, 20 percent of Americans will be age 65 or older, says the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services—a dramatic increase over the 13 percent of older Americans in 2005. Read more
Sexual intimacy is important at any age
Psychologists may want to add one more thing to the list of discussion topics with their older clients—sex. Most Americans remain sexually active well beyond their late 50s, and they're anxious to talk about it, according to a report in the New England Journal of Medicine (Vol. 357, No. 8, pages 762–774). Read more
Public Policy Update: Congress's chance to boost elder care
Research conducted by psychologist Patricia Arean, PhD, the University of California, San Francisco, has found that integrated care dramatically decreased depression, pain and suicide; erased mental health access disparities in older persons of color; and was cost neutral over a two-year period. Read more
President’s Column: Blueprint for change
The APA Presidential Task Force on Integrated Healthcare for an Aging Population (IHAP), convened by APA President Sharon Stephens Brehm, PhD, represents an exciting moment in APA’s commitment to older adults, to psychologists interested in aging generally, as well as to professional geropsychology. Read more
