12.5% Of Older Adults Had A Mental Illness In The Past Year

An estimated 9.8 million adults age 60 and older in the U.S. had any mental illness (AMI) in the past year (12.5%), including 1.5 million (1.9%) who had serious mental illness (SMI) according to responses from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH). Older women (14.8%) were more likely to have AMI in the past year than men (9.8%). Older women were also more than twice as likely as older men to have had SMI in the past year.

AMI refers to the presence of a mental, behavioral, or emotional disorder . . .