Implications of AI for geriatric mental health

“Mental health problems don’t define who you are. They are something you experience. You walk in the rain and you feel the rain, but you are not the rain.”

Matt Haig, author of Reasons to Stay Alive

The pandemic has affected the mental health of many, and particularly the most vulnerable segments of our population: children and adolescents, the chronically-ill, and older people. While the acute health issues of pulmonary and cardiac conditions are most prominently discussed in the media, the mental health conditions of our population are just starting to surface as the next health…