While there has been considerable and welcome attention in the area of dementia over recent years, the mental health of people in later life, and specifically the complex relationship between dementia and mental health problems, is a neglected area in public discourse, policy and service provision.
While through much of 2021, we all had to deal with more pandemic lockdowns, our work and focus on prevention in mental health was needed more than ever.
Between 2020-2022, working with the University of Cambridge, De Montfort University, Swansea University, the University of Strathclyde and Queen’s University Belfast, the Mental Health Foundation led a ground-breaking, long-term, UK-wide research study of how the pandemic affected people’s mental health.
After six years of ground-breaking workplace mental health facilitation and training, the board of Mental Health Foundation’s workplace subsidiary, Mental Health at Work, has decided to cease operations at the end of December 2023.
The Mental Health Policy Group (MHPG) is an informal coalition of six national organisations working together to improve mental health through policy influencing activities at the national level.
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