Psychological Health

US women have a higher burden of serious psychological distress than men across all adult age groups, including people aged 65 years and older, according to a new analysis of data from the National Health...

Clinicians relied on these drugs to address behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia during the pandemic. Experts are calling for a new approach to assessing treatment needs.

Remotely supervised chair yoga can help manage physical and psychological symptoms in socially isolated seniors with dementia, investigators have found.

Higher levels of psychological resilience are linked to greater improvements in walking speed and distance 16 weeks after hip fracture, investigators say.

Older adults may develop a broader psychological toolkit to navigate their social environment when compared with their younger counterparts, the results of new study suggest.

Residents with uncontrolled pain are more likely to exhibit depression and behavioral symptoms including signs of psychosis, rejection of care and physical and verbal aggression, investigators say.

An analysis of mental health outcomes from past SARS and MERS outbreaks may offer useful predictions about coronavirus outcomes for clinicians, say British researchers.

Adults with signs of pre-frailty can address health factors to help avoid progression to frailty and lower their mortality risk, say researchers.

Hearing loss is linked to significant mental, physical and social ailments in seniors, especially memory loss, a large new study has found.

We’ve come a long way with many psycho-social problem areas. Children, for example, start learning about bullies in kindergarten. When it comes to bullying in senior communities, though, we’re...