Die Bedeutung von Altersbildern für den Zugang älterer Menschen zu Psychotherapie. Stand der Forschung und Leerstellen.

In the study »Psychotherapy in older age« (PSYTIA) we examine barriers and opportunities for access to psychotherapy of elderly people with depression. In the present paper we explore the relevance of images of aging of physicians, psychotherapists and elderly people for the access to psychotherapy. We first give an overview on the study PSYTIA. In the following we describe the state of research on images of aging of general practitioners, psychotherapists and elderly people. We stress on the importance to consider images of aging in their relatedness with facts and ideas of socio-economic inequality, gender issues and also health, illness and psychotherapy to gain a comprehensive understanding of the meaning of images of aging for the access to psychotherapy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]