Contents.- Foreword.- Acknowledgments.- I. Introductory Section by Chief Editors.- 1. Understanding Geriatric Mental Health Psychosocial Dimensions - Mala Kapur Shankardass, Health Social Scientist and Gerontologist, Independent International Consultant & Retd. Senior Faculty, University of Delhi, India.
- 2. Significance of Psychosocial Approaches to Address Geriatric Mental Health Avinash De Sousa, Consultant Psychiatrist and Founder Trustee, Desousa Foundation, Mumbai, India.- II. Country Situations - Section Editor: Mala Kapur Shankardass.- 3. Psychosocial Aspects of Geriatric Mental Health in India - Mala Kapur Shankardass, Health Social Scientist and Gerontologist, Independent International Consultant & Retd. Senior Faculty, University of Delhi, India.- 4.
Psychosocial Aspects of Geriatric Mental Health Care in Japan - Shuichi Awata, Vice President, Tokyo Metropolitan Instituteof Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan; Manabu Ikeda.- Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan; Hiroaki Kazui, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Kochi University, Japan; Toshinari Odawara, Professor, Health Management Center, Yokohama City University, Japan; Kae Ito, Director, Research Team for Human Care, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan.- 5. Psychosocial Aspects of Geriatric Mental Health in Singapore - Carol Ma Hok Ka, Associate Professor and Head of Gerontology Programmes, Singapore University of Social Sciences.- 6. Psychosocial Aspects of Geriatric Mental Health Care in Sri Lanka - Sayuri R. Perera and D. Ariyasinghe, Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Kandy, Sri Lanka.
- 7. Psychosocial Aspects of Geriatric Mental Health Care in Nepal - Pawan Sharma, Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Nepal; Suresh Thapaliya, RCPsych Medical Training Initiative Fellow, Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust, Kent, United Kingdom; Kamal Gautam, Executive Director, Transcultural Psychosocial Organization Nepal (TPO Nepal) and Ramesh Kandel, Consultant Geriatrician, Hospital for Advanced Medicine and Surgery HAMS, Nepal.- 8. Psychosocial Aspects of Geriatric Mental Health Care in Pakistan - Imran Ijaz Haider, Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioural Sciences, Fatima Memorial Hospital, Shadman, Lahore Pakistan; Farah Tiwana, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Sciences, Fatima Memorial Hospital, Shadman, Lahore Pakistan and Prof. Dr. Afzal Javed, Pakistan Psychiatric Research Centre, Fountain House, Lahore, Pakistan.- 9. Psychosocial Aspects of Geriatric Mental Health Care in Taiwan - Yi-Chun Yeh & Cheng-Sheng Chen, Department of Psychiatry, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Taiwan.
- 10. Psychosocial Aspects of Geriatric Mental Health Care in Saudi Arabia - Javed Ather Siddiqui, Psychiatrist, Mental Health Hospital, Taif (KSA) and Shazia Farheen Qureshi, Psychiatrist, Mental Health Hospital, Taif (KSA).- 11. Psychosocial Aspects of Geriatric Mental Health Care in Iran - Mahshid Foroughan, Professor of Geriatric Psychiatry, Department of Gerontology, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran; Vahid Rashedi, Gerontologist, Assistant Professor, School of Behavioral Sciences and Mental Health, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; Ida Ghaemmagham Farahani, School of Behavioral Sciences and Mental Health, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.- 12. Psychosocial Aspects of Geriatric Mental Health Care in Turkey - Isil Kalayci, Associate Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Gerontology Department, Suleyman Demirel University, Isparta, Turkey.- 13. Psychosocial Aspects of Geriatric Mental Health Care in Lebanon - Rita Khoury, Pierre Malychef, Georges Karam, Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology, Saint George Hospital University Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon and University of Balamand, Beirut, Lebanon; Bernadette Mdawar, Elias Ghossoub, Department of Psychiatry, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
- 14. Psychosocial Aspects of Geriatric Mental Health Care in Zambia - Susan Chungu, Lecturer Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Zambia; Ravi Paul, Sr. Lecturer and Head, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Zambia.- 15. Psychosocial Aspects of Geriatric Mental Health Care in South Africa - Tanyaradzwa Ndhlovu, Counseling Psychologist, Private Practice, Johannesburg South Africa.- 16. Psychosocial Aspects of Geriatric Mental Health Care in Australia - Aniket Bansode & Akshata Mulmule, Consultant Psychiatrists.- 17.
Psychosocial Aspects of Geriatric Mental Health Care in Russia - Svetlana Gavrilova, Department of Geriatric Psychiatry, Federal Mental Health Research Centre, Moscow, Russia; Igor Kolykhalov, Department of Geriatric Psychiatry, Federal Mental Health Research Centre, Moscow, Russia; Dina Tukhvatullina, Institute of Population Health Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom; Daria Smirnova, Department of Psychiatry, Narcology, Psychotherapy and Clinical Psychology, Samara State Medical University, Samara, Russia and Neuroscience Research Instititute & International Research Lab in Neuropsychiatry, Samara State Medical University, Samara, Russia and Centre for Clinical Research in Neuropsychiatry, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia.- 18. Psychosocial Aspects of Geriatric Mental Health Care in Greece - Kostas Fountoulakis and team, University of Thessaloniki, Greece.