Principles of Mental Health

Restoration
Prevention
Promotion

Strategies:
1 Individual - encouragement of individual resources by promotion of interventions for self-esteem, coping, assertiveness.

2.Communities - increasing social inclusion and cohesion, developing support structures that promote mental health in workplaces, schools and neighbourhoods.

3.Government reduce socioeconomic barriers to mental health at governmental level by promoting equal access for all and support for vulnerable citizens.

Ageing of the population is a highly desirable and natural aim of any society. By 2025 there will be 1.2 billion older people in the world, close to three-quarters of them in the developing world. But if ageing is to be a positive experience it must be accompanied by improvements in the quality of life of those who have reached - or are reaching - old age.