Geriatric Psychiatry
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

[Safety at home for people with dementia: Preliminary evaluation of situations-at-risk in a French geriatric memory clinic]

30 Aug 2009 Community-dwelling people with Alzheimer's disease are exposed to situations-at-risk at home, but this phenomenon has rarely been studied empirically. The purpose of this pilot study was to describe the safety problems experienced at home in a ... Read more...

Growing old: a psychoanalyst's point of view.

30 Jul 2009 With the help of clinical examples, the author shows that psychoanalysis or psychotherapy after the age of 70 can be a fascinating experience, one that enables patients to reconstruct their internal history in such a way that their final years can ... Read more...

Changes in vitamin E prescribing for Alzheimer patients.

29 Jun 2009 OBJECTIVE: At the end of 2006, a survey was sent to members of the American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry (AAGP) to assess possible changes in prescribing Vitamin E to patients with Alzheimer disease that followed two published reports in ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Geriatric Psychiatry'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• [Assessment tools in geriatrics and rehabilitation] 6 Oct 2009
• [Safety at home for people with dementia: Preliminary evaluation of situations-at-risk in a French geriatric memory clinic] 30 Aug 2009
• Face to face. 30 Aug 2009
• Abstracts of the International Psychogeriatric Association 14th International Congress, 1-5 September 2009, Montreal, Canada. 30 Aug 2009
• Growing old: a psychoanalyst's point of view. 30 Jul 2009
• Epidemiology and geriatric psychiatry. 30 Jul 2009
• Changes in vitamin E prescribing for Alzheimer patients. 29 Jun 2009
• [10/12. The psychologist in geriatrics] 29 Jun 2009
• The application of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 among geriatric psychiatry patients: a pilot study. 23 Jun 2009
• Moving forward: evaluating a curriculum for managing responsive behaviors in a geriatric psychiatry inpatient population. 9 Jun 2009
• An integrated model for defining the scope of psychogeriatrics: the five Cs. 7 Jun 2009
• Research ethics issues in geriatric psychiatry. 30 May 2009
• Clinical ethics issues in geriatric psychiatry. 30 May 2009
• Update on neuropsychiatric symptoms of dementia: antipsychotic use. 29 Apr 2009
• Cardiac monitoring for cholinesterase inhibitors: a survey. 14 Apr 2009
• Top cited papers in International Psychogeriatrics: 4. Effects of individualized vs. classical "relaxation" music on the frequency of agitation in elderly persons with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders. 13 Apr 2009
• [Trends in the utilization of Dutch mental health services by older adults between 1990-2004] 30 Mar 2009
• Will psychiatry survive in the long-term care setting? 30 Mar 2009
• Psychiatric aspects of nonpsychiatric disorders in older adults. 30 Mar 2009
• Aggressive behavior by patients and its relationship to nursing staff attitudes and perceptions. 25 Mar 2009

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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