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Inpatient Geriatric Psychiatry

Optimum Care, Emerging Limitations, and Realistic Goals
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This book offers mental health guidelines for all medical professionals facing the emerging challenges presented by an aging population worldwide.  The text acknowledges that as the geriatric demographic grows, limited resources and infrastructures demand quality protocols to deliver inpatient geriatric psychiatric care, and that many physicians may not be trained to address these specific needs.  This text fills this gap with guidelines assessing, diagnosing, and treating aging patients as they present in the emergency room and other settings.   Unlike any other text, this book focuses on how to optimize the use of the inpatient setting by recommending evaluations and treatments, and offering flow-charts and figures of key points, to guide both general workup and continued evaluation and treatment. This approach aims to minimize instances of premature release or readmissions and to improve outcomes.     Chapters cover the various issues that clinicians face when working with an older patient, including legal topics, limitations to treatment, prescription-related complications, patients struggling with substance abuse, and various behavioral concerns. Written by experts in the field, the text takes a multidisciplinary approach to deliver high-quality care as needs of the aging population evolve.   Inpatient Geriatric Psychiatry is a vital resource for all clinicians working with an aging population, including geriatricians, psychiatrists, neurologists, primary care providers, hospitalists, psychologists, neuropsychologists, emergency room and geriatric nurses, social workers, and trainees.    

Author Biography:

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
Release date NZ
June 24th, 2019
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Contributors
  • Edited by Ana Hategan
  • Edited by Howard H. Fenn
  • Edited by James A. Bourgeois
Edition
1st ed. 2019
Illustrations
120 Illustrations, color; 4 Illustrations, black and white; XXIII, 415 p. 124 illus., 120 illus. in color.
Pages
415
ISBN-13
9783030104009
Product ID
28824244

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