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Identify the key mental health disorders that affect the elderly. Determine how these key mental disorders differ across racial, ethic, gender, and socioeconomic lines.

Answer 1

The key mental health disorders that will affect the elderly would be Dementia, Depression, Anxiety , Loneliness, Heart diseases, Diabetes , Suicide.

Dementia: It is a neurological disorder. It is a brain disease where the person have inability to think or forget things at times or in other words it means loss of memory.

Depression: It is a mood disorder which can affect us even physically or emotionally. Symptoms of depression could be sadness, fatigue, insomnia or hypersomnia, suicidal thoughts etc.,

Anxiety: It means fear orworry. There are types anxiety disorders that are Obsessive Compulsive disorder, Post-traumatic Stress disorder, Phobias.

Loneliness: This means being isolated which can also lead to death of a person.

These mental disorders differ across racial, ethnic, gender and socio-economic status.

When it comes to gender males may experience less depression than females.

Racial differences can also vary across culture.