PLOS Mental Health’s ‘The Bigger Picture’.

PLOS Mental Health recently introduced a quarterly seminar series: ‘The Bigger Picture’. In this series, we are aiming to promote work in our journal, which is either authored by early career researchers or authors from underrepresented regions, or focuses on underrepresented populations. With the many recent digital advances in mental health service delivery and increased support online, there is a risk that we leave behind older generations that may not be as exposed to these resources.

In a recent paper from University College London, we learn about some of the factors that determine help-seeking in older populations that have experienced crime. In this seminar, we hear more from two of the authors – Professor Marc Serfaty and Dr Marta Buszewicz about the key findings of the paper and, along with our Executive Editor Dr Karli Montague-Cardoso, co-EiC Charlene Sunkel and ‘Cognition and Mental Health’ Section Editor Professor Christian Beste, discuss some of the implications and potential future directions of this work.