Older People and Depression

Off to the Community Care Live event to speak on the above subject. Hadn't appreciated the scale of the event and the fact that there were a number of competing sessions so expected to be talking to three men and a dog so was pleasantly surprised that there was quite a large audience.

Was quite pleased that "the experts" from the Mental Health Alliance and Help the Aged and myself were broadly in agreement on a number of key issues.

Some interesting questions afterwards but there is always one that is completely unrelated so I was quite taken aback when one member of the audience commented on the Lib Dem proposal for free personal care (in a context completely unrelated to depression) and muttered that it was unaffordable!

A Labour party activist perhaps?