National Action Plan on Mental Health (2021–2023)

Ulusal Ruh Sağlığı Eylem Planı (URSEP)

The plan was developed to strengthen preventive and primary mental health services and to improve detection of psychological disorders that intensify in older age through the provision of community-based and holistic mental health services. The plan includes activities to ensure coordination with primary care services, community-based services, social care services. It also aims to develop programmes to strengthen the mental health of older persons with psychological disorders that intensify with age such as anxiety and depression and cognitive disorders directly related to ageing such as dementia, and to customize and strengthen available programmes in accordance with the needs of the individual.