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Point 2: Ensure older people with depression are correctly diagnosed

  • Get rid of the ageist attitudes held by some GPs that prevent older people with depression from receiving the help they need
  • Improve the training and development of GPs to enable them to recognise and treat depression in later life
  • Develop the GP contract to incentivise the identification and treatment of depression in all patients

  • woman looking out of windowPoint 1:

    Encourage older people with depression to seek help.

  • two women talkingPoint 3:

    Ensure older people with depression get the treatment they need.

  • Two women smilingWhat we are doing

    Find out what we are doing to help older people with depression.