Abstract
For older cohorts, there is decreased synergy between social determinants of health (SDoH), a sense of personal security, and knowledge about mental health conditions. The centrality of this paper is to discuss social constraints hindering the accessibility of older adults to mental health services. This paper further conceptualizes a multistakeholder socioecological model (ScEcM) with an adaptation of the social determinants of health framework and socioecological theory of human behavior. The model will aid social workers in less developed economies in tackling the stigma surrounding mental health by involving multilevel partnerships along with a focus on interpersonal constraints. This model is built by deliberating upon the role of public policies; the importance of socioecological factors such as interactions within the community and organization; and individual help-seeking behavior and other social deterrents that influence access to mental healthcare. The five stages of the model are identification, encouragement, integration, enrollment, and incentivization, which merge community-level participation with public policy and social security to counter the social elements that influence access to mental healthcare. Through a literature review, this paper introduces a fresh approach to posit a macro socioecological model that can help social workers address mental health inaccessibility in developing economies.