Updates from the Past 10 Years of Scholarly Inquiry on Clinical Interventions to Empower Older Women

This author’s contribution, “Clinical Interventions to Empower Older Women” drew on topical research related to older women’s mental health and offered concrete directions for mental health clinicians to explore with older women. This commentary offers an update on the last ten years of research in this area and focuses on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the landscape of older women’s mental health needs and related clinical and non-clinical interventions. The results of this commentary demonstrate that older women’s mental health needs have increased due to the direct and indirect impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and discusses how growth in digitalization of both clinical and non-clinical interventions post-pandemic has improved access to those interventions. Lastly, expanding on our discussion of the feminist-based lens that was emphasized in the original chapter, this commentary explains how the development of more inclusive frameworks in clinical practice can be especially effective in treating older women.