Aging and Mental Health
Friday's Progress Notes - October 25, 2005
Mental Health Information - Vol. 9 Issue 10
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CONTENTS
1. Online geriatric textbook
2. Managing chronic pain
3. Alzheimer's Disease Caregiver Guide
4. Guidelines for psychological practice with older adults
5. Reporting elder abuse
6. Psychotherapy for late-life depression
7. Practical end-of-life psychiatry
8. Skills training for family caregivers
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1.
AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY
Geriatrics At Your Fingertips - 2009 Edition
This online text is provided as a service to health care providers involved in the care of older persons. (Complimentary registration is required.)
http://www.geriatricsatyourfingertips.org/
2. FDA CONSUMER
Managing Chronic Pain
Savage recommends that people seek professional help for chronic pain when they feel that pain is interfering with their quality of life.
http://www.athealth.com/Consumer/disorders/chronicpain.html
3. NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING
Alzheimer's Disease: Caregiver Guide
Research has shown that caregivers themselves often are at increased risk for depression and illness, especially if they do not receive adequate support from family, friends, and the community.
4. AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Older Adults
The guidelines are intended to assist psychologists and facilitate their work with older adults.
5. AMERICAN MEDICAL WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION
Reporting Elder Abuse: A Medical, Legal, and Ethical Overview
Elder abuse is a growing public health problem in the United States.
6. CLINICAL GERIATRICS
Psychiatry Rounds: When a Patient’s Denial Results in a Terminal Condition
Denial that persists to a pervasive extreme, resulting in the refusal to recognize an obvious medical problem, is pathologic.
http://www.clinicalgeriatrics.com/article/5786
7. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRY
Practical End-of-Life Psychiatry
Topics include treatment challenges at the end-of-life, ethical issues in geropsychiatry, and depression in the dying patient.
http://www.aagpgpa.org/prof/pdfs/clinicalView_v2n1.pdf
8. FAMILY CAREGIVER ALLIANCE
Practical Skills Training for Family Caregivers
This article conceptualizes the treatment of men survivors of trauma at two levels.
http://www.caregiver.org/caregiver/jsp/content/pdfs/op_2003_skills_training.pdf
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