[MUSIC] Welcome to Module Six in the course Disease Screening and Public Health, where you will learn about public mental health screening in an aging population. If you've finished Module Five, you should know have a good understanding of what are the common cancer sites for screening, and what are the controversies existing for the different sites. Cancer is one of the conditions that has been growing in scope due in part to our aging population. Module five will help you understand the next module that explores screening of conditions that particularly affect our ageing population, including mental health. In this module, we will continue to explore complex conditions, but with a focus on public mental health, particularly as it is related to conditions associated with an aging population. This will be a presentation of a series of scenarios for screening by several experts. An introduction to public mental health as well as exploration of screening for topics such as dementia and related disorders will be given by Emiliano Albanize, who is an assistant professor in the Public Mental Health in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Geneva and the Director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Research and Training in Mental Health at the University of Geneva. In the next lecture, Professor Christophe Bruder, who is the head of the Geriatric and Geriatric Rehabilitation Service at the Vaudois University Hospital Center, will discuss screening for common issues in aging such as hearing and vision loss. The final lecture will be given by Professor Armand von Guden who is the head of the University Service for Psychiatry for Advanced Aging at the Vaudois University Hospital Service, and he will explore depression in the elderly. Like all chronic and degenerative conditions, issues in mental health and the prevalence of neuropsychiatric conditions increases with the aging of the population. Screening with an early diagnosis leading to a better prognosis is a worthwhile objective. However, the area of mental health is complex and needs a careful approach before considering screening strategies. When considering screening with an aging population, it is important to focus on the topic of well being. This is intrinsically linked to the public mental health that is concerned with the promotion of mental health. Keeping this in mind, neuropsychiatric disorders is one of the more important conditions for the aging population along with musculoskeletal disorders, cardiometabolic diseases and cancer, the last two of which we have already learned about in earlier modules. In neuropsychiatry, dementia and related disorders have created a lot of debate for screening possibilities in an aging population. Unlike other mental health issues, such as depression, we do not have a treatment for dementia related disorders, such as Alzheimer's. This module will explore whether we should consider screening to help prepare families for the inevitable major changes that will occur with dementia, and to be to able to make early care decisions despite the lack of effective treatment. This module will also explore other issues that are important for early diagnosis with primary and secondary prevention in the aging population. These include screening for auditory and visual impairment, issues with mobility and gait that might increase the risk of falls, and depression. All are key topics to maintaining a healthy, mobile, independent aging population in a state of well being. The learning objectives for this module are to describe the main concepts for public mental health and how this relates to physical health and disability. To identify the main conditions that contribute to dementia and how this differs from the normal aging process. And to give examples of conditions that are appropriate for screening in an aging population and the issues associated with these programs. There's a quiz at the end of this module. Thank you for your time and attention and I hope you enjoy this module. [MUSIC]