Reuters (1/3, Rapaport) reported a new study published in JAMA Network Open suggests that “many older Americans have experienced more days of poor mental health in recent years.” An examination of “data on 2.4 million people aged 60 and older who participated in annual surveys between 2003 and 2017” found “the average number of days each month when people aged 60 to 64 experienced poor mental health rose from 2.9 to 3.6,” and “climbed from 2.3 to 3.0 days for individuals 65 to 69 and from 2.2 to 2.4 days among those 70 to 74 years old.” While “declines in mental health were similar for men and women,” they were “greater for people with lower income and education.”
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— “Mental health declining among older U.S. adults, poor hardest hit, “Lisa Rapaport, Reuters, January 3, 2020