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What You Need to Know About Mental Health and Healthy Aging - for You and Your Loved Ones 50+ and Healthy is an exceptionally strong, evidence-based guide to help facilitate positive mental health. It presents easy-to-understand information on a topic of great importance - healthy aging, mental health, and mental illnesses. This information is prepared by an internationally renowned leader in the field - Professor Murali Rao, MD, FACLP, DLFPA, Professor & Chair of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences at the well-known Loyola University in Chicago. This text is a wonderful opportunity to know about available resources, practical approaches, and a GAME PLAN(TM) method enabling you to help yourself and your loved ones, of any age, in moments of distress or mental health crisis. The book is for readers of any educational and professional background. There is no technical jargon. With easily presented information and relatable case studies, you can learn a lot in a very short time. With this book, you can learn from a world authority about: Healthy aging and mental health What are the common mental illnesses, why people get them, how to identify them, and how to manage them Practical approaches for first aid and later interventions Self-care for mental health and successful aging If you are interested in healthy aging and how to help yourself, your family members, and your friends with mental health, this book is for you. Empower yourself with mental health knowledge today! (All proceeds go to a nonprofit organization engaged in mental health awareness education.)

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50+ and Healthy is an amazing source of easy-to-understand information on a topic of great importance - healthy aging, mental health, and mental illnesses. This information is prepared by an internationally renowned leader in the field - Professor Murali Rao, MD, FACLP, DLFPA, Professor & Chair of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences at the well-known Loyola University in Chicago, Illinois, USA. This is an exceptionally strong, evidence-based guide to help facilitate positive mental health. This text is a wonderful opportunity to know about available resources, practical approaches, and a practical GAME PLAN(TM) method. Readers from any educational and professional background will learn how to assist themselves or their loved ones, of any age, in moments of distress or mental health crisis. They will get information about healthy aging and mental health, what the common mental illnesses are, how to identify them, and also how to manage them. They will get invaluable knowledge about practical approaches for first aid and later interventions. Readers will learn from the world authority about what mental illnesses are (anxiety, depression, psychosis, dementia, and other illnesses), why people get them, and what is their treatment as well as self-care. Once they understand the problem, the solutions will appear quickly. The book includes case examples that one can relate to and quickly learn from. There is no technical jargon. Readers will be pleasantly surprised by how much they have learned in a short time. Moreover, they can go back and access whatever information they need by quickly re-reading the relevant portions of this material. I strongly recommend this book for anyone who wants to help themselves or their family members or friends with mental health-related problems, or even those who are just interested in finding out how to age successfully. - Dilip V. Jeste, MD, Senior Associate Dean for Healthy Aging and Senior Care; Estelle and Edgar Levi Chair in Aging; Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Neurosciences; Director, Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging, University of California, San Diego; Editor-in-chief, International Psychogeriatrics; Past President, American Psychiatric Association Murali Rao, MD, an expert in the area of clinical geriatrics and geriatric psychiatry, and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Loyola University, Chicago, has prepared an excellent book on mental health for the lay person, with a special emphasis on aging and mental disorders of the elderly. The material is thoughtfully compiled and written in a clear, inviting and easily readable style. It focuses on all the important topics and themes germane to wellness, mental health/illness and the interface between these domains. The classification of mental disorders is presented in 'jargon free' style that flows easily, and is followed by interesting case vignettes and readily comprehensible definitions and commentary. The material is presented over twelve chapters that are followed by questions that facilitate consolidation of the materials learned. As a bonus to the reader, there are practical suggestions for self-help together with resources available within the community. This book is more than a well-written body of work by an expert in the field. It is truly a GEM in the domain of aging, mental health and illness. I strongly recommend this for anyone with an interest in aging for multiple perspectives. - Anand Kumar, MD, MHA, Lizzie Gilman Professor, Head of the Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois, Chicago; Past President, American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry

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Dr. Murali Rao is the Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences at Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago. He specializes in liaison and emergency psychiatry. Additionally, he serves as a member of multiple professional bodies including the American College of Psychiatrists, the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine, CINP, the Indian Psychiatric Society, and the American College of forensic Psychiatry. Dr. Rao has received multiple awards and fellowships including Distinguished Life Fellow by the APA, Outstanding Academician Award by the Indo-American Psychiatric Association, and the Master Teacher Award by the Stritch School of Medicine. Dr. Rao has also had more than 50 journal publications.

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