Improving our Response to Older Adults with Substance Use, Mental Health and Gambling Problems

A Guide for Supervisors, Managers and Clinical Staff

Improving Our Response to Older Adults provides the information, tools and guidance that service providers need to work more effectively with older adults who may have mental health, substance use or gambling problems.

These problems are often left untreated in older adults. This comprehensive guide will help readers to identify problems, to approach older people with these problems in a proactive and sensitive way, and to link older adults with services that can provide specialized care.

In Improving Our Response to Older Adults:

Acknowledgments

The CAMH Healthy Aging Project

Preface / PDF

Foreword / PDF

1 Introduction / PDF

• Defining a problem
• What is a substance use problem?
• What is a mental health problem?
• What is problem gambling?
• What are concurrent disorders?
• The continuum of severity
• Recognizing problems
• Aging can increase vulnerability to problems
• Ageism and other forms of stigma
• Diversity
• Problems are complex

2 Improving our response

3 Identifying substance use, mental health and gambling problems in older adults

4 Introduction to treatment and services

5 Strategies for challenging situations

Information sheets for older adults

Resources

References

For a more detailed Table of Contents, please refer to the PDF version. Please note that not all sections are available online.

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