This report provides a suite of pragmatic recommendations that are intended to ensure that Victoria’s current and future mental health and wellbeing systems are based on a commitment to promote and uphold human rights, and to focus on the promotion of good mental health and wellbeing.

This submission on older persons' mental health is supplementary to MHV’s primary submissions made to the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System and the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety in 2019.