The Silent Mental Health Crisis of Aging

By the late 2060s there will be more people over sixty walking this earth than there are kids

under eighteen. That is a fundamental shift in the human experience that we are absolutely

not ready for. We spend so much time obsessing over the youth, over the next generation,

over what is trending right now, that we are completely ignoring the reality that is barreling

toward us. The world’s population is aging at a speed that is hard to comprehend.

By 2050, the number of people aged sixty and over is projected to nearly double to

over two billion. That means one in every five people on the planet will be in that older

demographic. And while we talk a lot about the physical side of getting older,