Preventing Depression in Late Life: A Model for Low and Middle Income Countries

"Problem Solving therapy teaches problem solving skills that participants can use in their everyday life. A problem is identified, various solutions identified and explored with the underlying focus to learn behavioral and self management strategies.Social casework and management of chronic disease is also included as per the participant's need.~Brief Behavioral Treatment of Insomnia focuses on improving sleep by promoting sleep hygiene such as time spent in bed and decreasing night time stimuli. The therapy has been suitably modified to suit the needs of the participants to be recruited in the Low and Middle income countries keeping in mind the low level of literacy and the local social and health care services."