TY - JOUR
T1 - MHealth Assessment and Intervention of Depression and Anxiety in Older Adults
AU - Grossman, Jason T.
AU - Frumkin, Madelyn R.
AU - Rodebaugh, Thomas L.
AU - Lenze, Eric J.
N1 - Funding Information:
Declaration of interest: Eric Lenze has received support from Aptinyx, Barnes Jewish Foundation, Lundbeck, MagStim, McKnight Brain Research Foundation, Takeda, and Taylor Family Institute for Innovative Psychiatric Research and Center for Brain Research in Mood Disorders, Washington University, and has served as a consultant for Janssen and Jazz Pharmaceuticals.
Funding Information:
From the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis (Mr. Grossman, Ms. Frumkin, and Dr. Rodebaugh); Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine (Dr. Lenze). Supported, in part, by National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders grant nos. 1R01DC017451-01 (Ms. Frumkin, and Drs. Rodebaugh and Lenze); NARSAD Independent Investigator Award (Dr. Rodebaugh); National Institute on Aging grant nos. R01AG049369 (Drs. Rodebaugh and Lenze) and 1R01AG060499-01 (Dr. Lenze); and National Center for Research Resources grant no. R01NR015738, National Institute of Mental Health grant no. 1R01MH114966-02), Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute grant no. TRD-1511-33321, and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (all Dr. Lenze). Original manuscript received 26 November 2019; revised manuscript received 29 February 2020, accepted for publication subject to revision 8 March 2020; revised manuscript received 10 March 2020.
Publisher Copyright:
© Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
PY - 2020/5/1
Y1 - 2020/5/1
N2 - Mobile technology is increasingly being used to enhance health and wellness, including in the assessment and treatment of psychiatric disorders. Such applications have been referred to collectively as mHealth, and this article provides a comprehensive review and clinical perspective of research regarding mHealth in late-life mood and anxiety disorders. The novel data collection offered by mHealth has contributed to a broader understanding of psychopathology, to an increased diversity of psychological interventions, and to novel methods of assessment that may ultimately provide individually adaptive mental health care for this population. Older adults face challenges (e.g., transportation, mobility) that limit their ability to receive medical and mental health care services, and mHealth may improve the capacity to reach this population. Although several mobile interventions exist for health-related issues in older adults (e.g., balance, diabetes, medication management), mHealth targeting psychiatric disorders is limited and most often focuses on problems related to dementia, cognitive dysfunction, and memory loss. Given that depression and anxiety are two of the most common mental health concerns among this population, mHealth has strong potential for broad public health interventions that may improve effectiveness of mental health care via individualized assessments and treatments.
AB - Mobile technology is increasingly being used to enhance health and wellness, including in the assessment and treatment of psychiatric disorders. Such applications have been referred to collectively as mHealth, and this article provides a comprehensive review and clinical perspective of research regarding mHealth in late-life mood and anxiety disorders. The novel data collection offered by mHealth has contributed to a broader understanding of psychopathology, to an increased diversity of psychological interventions, and to novel methods of assessment that may ultimately provide individually adaptive mental health care for this population. Older adults face challenges (e.g., transportation, mobility) that limit their ability to receive medical and mental health care services, and mHealth may improve the capacity to reach this population. Although several mobile interventions exist for health-related issues in older adults (e.g., balance, diabetes, medication management), mHealth targeting psychiatric disorders is limited and most often focuses on problems related to dementia, cognitive dysfunction, and memory loss. Given that depression and anxiety are two of the most common mental health concerns among this population, mHealth has strong potential for broad public health interventions that may improve effectiveness of mental health care via individualized assessments and treatments.
KW - anxiety
KW - depression
KW - geriatrics
KW - mHealth
KW - mental health
KW - mobile applications
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85084693282&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1097/HRP.0000000000000255
DO - 10.1097/HRP.0000000000000255
M3 - Review article
C2 - 32310834
AN - SCOPUS:85084693282
SN - 1067-3229
VL - 28
SP - 203
EP - 214
JO - Harvard review of psychiatry
JF - Harvard review of psychiatry
IS - 3
ER -