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The Mental Health Commission of Canada has just released their new Guidelines for Comprehensive Mental Health Services for Older Adults in Canada [3]. While we welcome their focus on seniors’ mental health, we are disappointed to find that these guidelines lack a clear gender analysis. When the Mental Health Commission released their first report in 2009, the CWHN wrote about the missing gendered perspective. Read our critique of that report in Mind the (gender) gap…in Canada’s new mental health framework [4].
For more background on women and mental health, read this paper written in response to the Kirby report (Out of the Shadows at Last: Transforming Mental Health, Mental Illness, and Addiction Services in Canada), by the CWHN-organized Ad Hoc Working Group on Women, Mental Health, Mental Illness and Addictions, Women, Mental Health and Mental Illness and Addiction in Canada: An Overview [5].