AMA Journal of Ethics^®

Loneliness deserves attention from health policy, technology, and cultural standpoints, with critical analysis of how our built environments contribute to social isolation.  

Growing familiarity with health risks of loneliness and isolation highlight the importance of social connection in lived environments and communities.

Three digital drawings invite interpretations of a cornered figure’s orientations to space, color, and its own boundaries and self.  

Geriatric psychiatry offers stable career prospects and opportunities to express humanitarian impulses by working closely with elders.

This article suggests how to better identify older adults with mental illness at risk for placement that won’t meet their needs.

Despite legal protections for services for patients with LEP, some places have limited capacity to offer them.

Telehealth offers access and quality opportunities for some patients with mental illness.

Ethics questions about care of patients with AD could influence clinicians’ judgment about whether and when to recommend aducanumab.

Contributors focus on contemporary clinical and ethical questions about mental health care of older adults. 

Since ageism contributes to global mental health inequity among older people, responding to their needs should be a clinical, ethical, and policy priority.