Geriatric Psychiatry - Standards
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Contemporaneous assessment of testamentary capacity.

25 Mar 2009 BACKGROUND: Challenges to wills on the basis of lack of testamentary capacity and/or undue influence are likely to increase over the next generation. Since contemporaneous assessment of testamentary capacity can be a powerful influence on the ... Read more...

[Multidisciplinary guideline Personality disorders considered in more detail for older adults]

30 Dec 2008 This article deals with the question of whether the recently published Multidisciplinary guideline on Personality disorders is unreservedly applicable to older persons. It is concluded that the guideline is on the whole of clinical relevance with ... Read more...

The many faces of geriatric depression.

30 Oct 2008 PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Recent studies on five aspects of geriatric depression, namely subsyndromal depression, risk factors and association with chronic pain, cardiovascular disease and cognitive impairment, are reviewed. RECENT FINDINGS: Subsyndromal ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Geriatric Psychiatry - Standards'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Contemporaneous assessment of testamentary capacity. 25 Mar 2009
• [Multidisciplinary guideline Personality disorders considered in more detail for older adults] 30 Dec 2008
• [Geriatric psychiatry in Sweden must be developed--not dismantled. New investigation shows depressing results] 30 Dec 2008
• The many faces of geriatric depression. 30 Oct 2008
• Turnaround in an aged persons' mental health service in crisis: a case study of organisational renewal. 30 Jul 2008
• Restraint: cause for concern. 29 Jun 2008
• [Implementation of the HoNOS65+] 30 Dec 2007
• Psychogeriatric services in the community and in long-term care facilities: needs and developments. 30 Oct 2007
• Publication of the International Psychogeriatric Association consensus statement on defining and measuring treatment benefits in dementia. 30 Oct 2007
• Routine 'Health of the Nation Outcome Scales for elderly people' (HoNOS65+) collection in an acute psychogeriatric inpatient unit in New Zealand. 8 Aug 2007
• [The assessment of fear of falling with the Falls Efficacy Scale-International (FES-I). Development and psychometric properties in Dutch elderly] 30 Jul 2007
• Position statement of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry regarding principles of care for patients with dementia resulting from Alzheimer disease. 29 Jun 2006
• Is culture an independent variable in psychogeriatrics? The case of Japanese and Brazilian elderly. 27 Feb 2006
• Counting the years. 30 Oct 2005
• [Can the time of epicrisis be shortened?] 6 Sep 2005
• [Take care of psychogeriatrics] 30 Aug 2005
• [The work of the place, the reliable role] 30 Aug 2005
• Professional influences on the provision of mental health care for older people within a general hospital ward. 30 Jul 2005
• Psychiatric outpatient consultation for seniors. Perspectives of family physicians, consultants, and patients/family: a descriptive study. 17 Apr 2005
• The comparative effectiveness among institutionalized and non-institutionalized elderly people in Taiwan of reminiscence therapy as a psychological measure. 30 Aug 2004

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Technical information about 'Geriatric Psychiatry'

Definition: A subspecialty of psychiatry concerned with the mental health of the aged.

Descriptor UI: D005852

Alternative terms: Geriatric Psychiatry; Psychiatry, Geriatric; Psychogeriatrics;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: F04.096.544.380; H02.403.776.655.260;

History Note: 75

Technical Notes: SPEC: SPEC qualif, not for mental disorders in the aged ( = MENTAL DISORDERS (IM) + AGED (NIM) ): Manual 27.9