Ms R?is?n Clarke:

Older persons' mental health is conspicuous by being almost absent in that document. Going back to my earlier point, we are seriously falling short in this area. We have the essence and the approach correct in terms of how we want to develop mental health services, which is based on the life-cycle approach and with integrated care being couched into all HSE approaches and all of our national legislation. However, we are missing the piece about older persons. With an ageing population, we cannot afford to continue in this vein. The failure to address this issue is a massive deficit. Older people are not adequately represented in Sharing the Vision.