Anorexia in over 50's
According to an article in the Independent, an increasing number of women in their 50’s and beyond are being treated for anorexia and other eating disorders. Youthful looking older celebrities (including Madonna and Sharon Stone) have been linked to older women having unrealistic expectations of how they should look as they age.
Anorexia is most commonly associated with young teenagers, however Ursula Philpot (chairman of the British Dietetic Association’s Mental Health group) has commented that “older women now make up at least 10% of eating disorder patients”. It was also suggested that these statistics could be a result of better diagnosis, however this remains unclear at present.
October 23rd, 2010 at 11:06 pm
Mental health is a constant difficulty in my home. My wife suffers from depression and her son has bi-polar disorder.