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1. Introduction Source/s
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information
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Thesis statement
Establishing depression and dementia as the major
mental health issues that are prevalent across
Australia.
Providing a definition for mental illness with
supporting facts from the World Health
Organization. Outlining statistical data regarding
the prevalence of depression and dementia in recent
years, in Australia.
Establishing depression and dementia as the major
mental healthcare concern, and elaborating on the
interventions that will help in addressing the issues.
(Savy &
Sawyer, 2009)
(WHO, 2017)
(WHO, 2012)
(AIHW, 2016)
(ABS, 2016)
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Topic Sentence
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reason, quoted,
description, statistic,
example - cited)
Depression or Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is
a severe mental health problem, and creates
significant impacts on health and wellbeing of
patients.
Discussion of the common signs, symptoms and
rates of prevalence across Australia. Explanation of
the health burden created by depression.
Discussion of the major factors that increase the
(Greenberg,
Fournier,
Sisitsky, Pike &
Kessler, 2015)
(Habtewold,
Islam, Radie &
Tegegne, 2016)
(Colodro-Conde
et al., 2018)

2ESSAY OUTLINE
risk for suffering from depression.
Explaining the occurrence of the mental disorder
based on different models and prior research
evidences.
(Wray et al.,
2018) (AIHW,
2016)
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Topic Sentence
Support points
Impacts of depression on the health and quality of
life of the patients.
Discussion of comorbid conditions that are
associated with depression.
Identification of the complications of depression
and exhaustive explanation on the different
interventions that can help to address the issues.
Supporting the interventions with evidences.
(Potter,
McQuoid &
Steffens, 2015)
(van Strien,
Konttinen,
Homberg,
Engels &
Winkens, 2016)
(Godlewska,
Browning,
Norbury, Cowen
& Harmer,
2016)
3rd Body Paragraph Source/s
Topic Sentence Dementia is an umbrella term that results in serious
health problem, and brings about a momentous
(Jung, 2015)
(Hendriks,

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Support points (e.g.
reason, quoted,
description, statistic,
example - cited)
impacts on the wellbeing of patients.
Discussion of the common signs, symptoms and
types of dementia namely, vascular dementia and
AD.
Discussion on the prevalence rates of dementia
across Australia. Description of the health burden
created by dementia.
Explanation on the different factors that are
responsible for the onset of dementia.
Supporting the causes with evidences.
Smalbrugge,
Hertogh & van
der Steen, 2014)
(ABS, 2016)
(Okamura et al.,
2014) (T
O'Brien &
Thomas, 2015)
4th Body Paragraph Source/s
Topic Sentence
Support points
Impacts of dementia on the health and quality of
life of the patients.
Discussion of the comorbid conditions that are
allied with dementia.
Documentation of the difficulties of dementia and
comprehensive explanation of the diverse
interventions that can aid to address the identified
issues.
Providing supportive evidences for the
interventions.
(van Alphen et
al., 2016)
(Woods,
O'Philbin,
Farrell, Spector
& Orrell, 2018)
(Birks &
Harvey, 2018)