Health Problems Of The Elderly and Their Impact On Their Mental Health

Our current research has sought to study the most important humanitarian issues of a sacred
and very important segment in all the heavenly religions and human societies, namely the
elderly, and their most important health problems and diseases are known in their advanced
age and old age, and what are the effects of these problems on their mental health, which is
the ultimate goal of human resources in all parts of the world According to the sources
available for this in the theoretical literature, starting from the divine messages and the
Islamic religion, then the humanistic, social, legal and psychological theory, and the
definition of this segment in general and in Iraq in particular, the research included four
methodological chapters that included the definition of the research and identify its
problem, importance, goals and terminology, and then the literature The most important
psychological theories that explained their conditions, especially the elderly in Iraqi
society, and the most important laws that were legislated for them, as well as the definition
of the concept of mental health of the elderly and the effects of their health problems on
them, and to clarify some of the auxiliary measures to alleviate them preventively and
medically, then come to conclusions, and give the best recommendations and proposals to
those who are interested in this sacred segment.