Written by experts in the field
Offers a multidisciplinary approach to mental healthcare for the aging patient
Includes practical guidelines to prevent premature release and remission

Written by experts in the field Offers a multidisciplinary approach to mental healthcare for the aging patient Includes practical guidelines to prevent premature release and remission

Autorentext

Howard H. Fenn, MD
Clinical Associate Professor (affiliated)
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Stanford University
Stanford, California

Attending physician
Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Palo Alto, California

Ana Hategan, MD
Associate Clinical Professor
Geriatric Psychiatrist
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences
McMaster University
Hamilton, ON
Canada

James A. Bourgeois, OD, MD
Chair, Department of Psychiatry
Baylor Scott & White Health, Central Texas Division
Clinical Professor, College of Medicine
Texas A&M University Health Science Center
2401 South 31st Street
Temple TX 76508
Professor Emeritus
Department of Psychiatry
University of California, San Francisco
School of Medicine

Zusammenfassung
Written by experts in the field
Offers a multidisciplinary approach to mental healthcare for the aging patient
Includes practical guidelines to prevent premature release and remission

Inhalt

Essential medical work-up and rule-outs.- Neuropsychological assessment.- Pharmacological overview in geriatrics: pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics, laboratory.- Interdisciplinary roles and interface.- Legal Aspects of Inpatient Geriatric Psychiatry.- Major Neurocognitive Disorder with Behavioral Disturbance.- Acute medical events: falls, seizures, CVAs, urinary retention, cardiac events, hypotension, SIADH, dehydration, infection.- Suicide in the geriatric population: risk factors, identification, and management.- Sleep in Geriatric Psychiatry Inpatients.- Alcohol and Substance Use Disorders in the Geriatric Psychiatry Inpatient: Acute Treatment, Detoxification, Withdrawal.- Psychiatric symptoms co-morbid with neurological syndromes.- Delirium: risk factors, contributors, identification, work-up, and treatment.- Involuntary treatment: medications, forced feeding, restraints, prevention of wandering.- Pain management.- Special syndromes: Serotonin Syndrome (SS), Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome (NMS), and Catatonia.- Neuromodulation interventions: ECT, rTMS: work-up, preparation and post-treatment care + ketamine in inpatient psychiatry.- Medication strategies: Switching, tapering, cross-over, overmedication, drug-drug interactions, discontinuation syndromes.- Psychotherapies and non-pharmacological interventions.- Medical nursing care and communication barrier.- Telemedicine and IT --use of digital technology on inpatient units.- Placement, coordination, follow-up.