Mala Kapur Shankardass is a sociologist, gerontologist, health and development social scientist. She is a teacher, writer, researcher, consultant and activist. She has been involved with ageing studies since 1992, when she started postdoctoral work on ageing issues. She has done prestigious assignments with United Nations agencies and international and national institutions. She has participated in panel discussions, delivered keynote addresses and chaired sessions on ageing concerns with reputed organizations in India and abroad. She has been recognized for her work and contributions to gerontology worldwide.Avinash De Sousa is a Consultant Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist, and Consultant School Psychiatrist. He has his Consulting Rooms in Santacruz West, Mumbai. He is a Research Associate at the Department of Psychiatry, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College, Mumbai. He is also the Founder and Trustee – the Desousa Foundation – a trust that works in the area ofmental health awareness across all sectors.He is also an Associate Professor and Secretary – International Institute of Organizational Psychological Medicine – an organization that works in organizational psychological medicine across seven countries.He has over 750 publications in national and international journals and is the author of 12 books in the area of mental health.He is one of the few psychiatrists who, in addition to a psychiatry degree, has Masters in Counseling & Psychotherapy, an M Phil in Applied Psychology, and an MBA in Human Resource Development. He was awarded a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the University of Hertfordshire, UK 2011.

• Contents.- Foreword.- Acknowledgments.- I. Introductory Section by Chief Editors.- 1. Understanding Geriatric Mental Health Psychosocial Dimensions - Mala Kapur Shankardass, Health Social Scientist and Gerontologist, Independent International Consultant & Retd. Senior Faculty, University of Delhi, India.- 2. Significance of Psychosocial Approaches to Address Geriatric Mental Health Avinash De Sousa, Consultant Psychiatrist and Founder Trustee, Desousa Foundation, Mumbai, India.- II. Country Situations – Section Editor: Mala Kapur Shankardass.- 3. Psychosocial Aspects of Geriatric Mental Health in India - Mala Kapur Shankardass, Health Social Scientist and Gerontologist, Independent International Consultant & Retd. Senior Faculty, University of Delhi, India.- 4. Psychosocial Aspects of Geriatric Mental Health Care in Japan - Shuichi Awata, Vice President, Tokyo Metropolitan Instituteof Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan; Manabu Ikeda.- Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan; Hiroaki Kazui, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Kochi University, Japan; Toshinari Odawara, Professor, Health Management Center, Yokohama City University, Japan; Kae Ito, Director, Research Team for Human Care, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan.- 5. Psychosocial Aspects of Geriatric Mental Health in Singapore - Carol Ma Hok Ka, Associate Professor and Head of Gerontology Programmes, Singapore University of Social Sciences.- 6. Psychosocial Aspects of Geriatric Mental Health Care in Sri Lanka - Sayuri R. Perera and D. Ariyasinghe, Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Kandy, Sri Lanka.- 7. Psychosocial Aspects of Geriatric Mental Health Care in Nepal - Pawan Sharma, Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Nepal; Suresh Thapaliya, RCPsych Medical Training Initiative Fellow, Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust, Kent, United Kingdom; Kamal Gautam, Executive Director, Transcultural Psychosocial Organization Nepal (TPO Nepal) and Ramesh Kandel, Consultant Geriatrician, Hospital for Advanced Medicine and Surgery HAMS, Nepal.- 8. Psychosocial Aspects of Geriatric Mental Health Care in Pakistan - Imran Ijaz Haider, Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioural Sciences, Fatima Memorial Hospital, Shadman, Lahore Pakistan; Farah Tiwana, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Sciences, Fatima Memorial Hospital, Shadman, Lahore Pakistan and Prof. Dr. Afzal Javed, Pakistan Psychiatric Research Centre, Fountain House, Lahore, Pakistan.- 9. Psychosocial Aspects of Geriatric Mental Health Care in Taiwan - Yi-Chun Yeh & Cheng-Sheng Chen, Department of Psychiatry, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Taiwan.- 10. Psychosocial Aspects of Geriatric Mental Health Care in Saudi Arabia - Javed Ather Siddiqui, Psychiatrist, Mental Health Hospital, Taif (KSA) and Shazia Farheen Qureshi, Psychiatrist, Mental Health Hospital, Taif (KSA).- 11. Psychosocial Aspects of Geriatric Mental Health Care in Iran - Mahshid Foroughan, Professor of Geriatric Psychiatry, Department of Gerontology, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran; Vahid Rashedi, Gerontologist, Assistant Professor, School of Behavioral Sciences and Mental Health, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; Ida Ghaemmagham Farahani, School of Behavioral Sciences and Mental Health, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.- 12. Psychosocial Aspects of Geriatric Mental Health Care in Turkey – Isil Kalayci, Associate Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Gerontology Department, Suleyman Demirel University, Isparta, Turkey.- 13. Psychosocial Aspects of Geriatric Mental Health Care in Lebanon - Rita Khoury, Pierre Malychef, Georges Karam, Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology, Saint George Hospital University Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon and University of Balamand, Beirut, Lebanon; Bernadette Mdawar, Elias Ghossoub, Department of Psychiatry, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.- 14. Psychosocial Aspects of Geriatric Mental Health Care in Zambia - Susan Chungu, Lecturer Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Zambia; Ravi Paul, Sr. Lecturer and Head, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Zambia.- 15. Psychosocial Aspects of Geriatric Mental Health Care in South Africa - Tanyaradzwa Ndhlovu, Counseling Psychologist, Private Practice, Johannesburg South Africa.- 16. Psychosocial Aspects of Geriatric Mental Health Care in Australia - Aniket Bansode & Akshata Mulmule, Consultant Psychiatrists.- 17. Psychosocial Aspects of Geriatric Mental Health Care in Russia - Svetlana Gavrilova, Department of Geriatric Psychiatry, Federal Mental Health Research Centre, Moscow, Russia; Igor Kolykhalov, Department of Geriatric Psychiatry, Federal Mental Health Research Centre, Moscow, Russia; Dina Tukhvatullina, Institute of Population Health Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom; Daria Smirnova, Department of Psychiatry, Narcology, Psychotherapy and Clinical Psychology, Samara State Medical University, Samara, Russia and Neuroscience Research Instititute & International Research Lab in Neuropsychiatry, Samara State Medical University, Samara, Russia and Centre for Clinical Research in Neuropsychiatry, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia.- 18. Psychosocial Aspects of Geriatric Mental Health Care in Greece - Kostas Fountoulakis and team, University of Thessaloniki, Greece.