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On-Call Geriatric Psychiatry

Handbook of Principles and Practice

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Editors:
  1. Ana Hategan

    1. Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neuros, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

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  2. James A. Bourgeois

    1. Dept. of Psychiatry/Langley Porter Psych, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, USA

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  3. Calvin H. Hirsch

    1. Dept.of Internal Med.,Div of General Med, University of California Davis, Sacramento, USA

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  • Written by experts in the field
  • Uses the GRADE system for evaluating Quality of Evidence
  • The only emergency psychiatry book to focus on the geriatric patient
  • Includes clinical vignettes and reflective questions

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Table of contents (28 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. On-Call Geriatric Psychiatry: General Principles and Clinical Practice

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Psychiatric Examination

      • Ana Hategan, James A. Bourgeois
      Pages 3-15

    3. Physical Examination

      • Tricia Woo, Calvin H. Hirsch
      Pages 17-30

    4. Psychopharmacology Principles

      • Glen L. Xiong, Ashkan Javaheri, Ilse R. Wiechers
      Pages 31-44

    5. Psychotherapy Principles

      • Caroline Giroux, W. Edwin Smith
      Pages 45-53

    6. Anti-oppressive Approach to Assessment

      • Albina Veltman, Tara La Rose
      Pages 55-62

    7. Decisional Capacity Assessments and Advance Directives

      • Usha Parthasarathi, Daniel L. Ambrosini
      Pages 63-68

    8. Use of Seclusion, Chemical and Physical Restraint

      • Lauren S. Barney, Sebastien Prat, Usha Parthasarathi
      Pages 69-77

    9. Palliative Care and the Dying Patient

      • Margaret W. Leung
      Pages 79-85

    10. Safe Clinical Handover

      • Mariam Abdurrahman, Claudia Garcia
      Pages 87-97

  3. On-Call Geriatric Psychiatry and Clinical Problems: The Chief Complaints

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99
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    2. The Chief Psychiatric Complaints

      • Ana Hategan, James A. Bourgeois, Karen Saperson, Simon Chiu
      Pages 101-140

    3. The Chief Physical Complaints

      • Calvin H. Hirsch, Tricia Woo
      Pages 141-159

    4. The Chief Adverse Effects of Medications

      • Calvin H. Hirsch, Shyam Maharaj, James A. Bourgeois
      Pages 161-183

    5. The Physical and Behavioral Indicators of Elder Mistreatment and Neglect

      • Calvin H. Hirsch, Deborah C. Francis, James A. Bourgeois
      Pages 185-195

    6. The Complaints of Physical and Sexual Trauma: A Trauma-Informed Approach

      • Caroline Giroux, Albina Veltman, Lisebeth Gatkowski, Kolja Paech
      Pages 197-207

    7. The Sexual Consent and Patients with Major Neurocognitive Disorders

      • Daniel L. Ambrosini, Ana Hategan, James A. Bourgeois
      Pages 209-215

  4. On-Call Geriatric Psychiatry in Specific Medical Settings

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 217-217
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    2. Emergency Medicine Settings

      • Katren Tyler, Calvin H. Hirsch, Lorin M. Scher, Dane E. Stevenson
      Pages 219-230
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About this book

This text covers basic principles and practice of on-call psychiatric care in the geriatric patient in various medical settings. It compiles the most likely complaints and provides assessment and management tools for each situation. Written and edited by expert geriatric psychiatrists, emergency psychiatrists, consultation/liaison psychiatrists, geriatricians, and other multidisciplinary specialists, this is the first handbook devoted to on-call geriatric psychiatry. Chapters contain an important summary of key points for managing clinical situations, case studies, and reflective questions.  This text brings together relevant principles of on-call geriatric psychiatry provided in clinical settings such as emergency, acute and subacute inpatient, outpatient, residential, correctional, and consultation/liaison. It includes clinical topics such as psychopharmacology, psychotherapy, substance abuse, and includes coverage of medical ethics and the law, utilization of contemporary technology, and administrative and public health policy. 
On-Call Geriatric Psychiatry is the first practical guide to knit together evidence-based medicine and geriatric psychiatric principles and practice guidelines and is a valuable resource for trainees, psychiatrists, geriatricians, emergency departments, nursing home physicians, and other health professionals working with older adult patients.

Reviews

“The editors and chapter authors have produced a very useful and practical guide for the care of the patient who presents with a geriatric psychiatric disorder. … This is a top-notch book covering a unique but important subject: the care of the geriatric psychiatry patient by a non-geriatric psychiatrist. Any physician who takes care of patients in this age group needs to be aware of the information in this very practical handbook. I highly recommend it.” (Michael Joel Schrift, Doody’s Book Reviews, August, 2016)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neuros, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

    Ana Hategan

  • Dept. of Psychiatry/Langley Porter Psych, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, USA

    James A. Bourgeois

  • Dept.of Internal Med.,Div of General Med, University of California Davis, Sacramento, USA

    Calvin H. Hirsch

About the editors

Ana Hategan, M.D., FRCPC, Associate Clinical Professor, McMaster University, Geriatric Psychiatrist, Division of Geriatric Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences Faculty of Health Sciences, Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, SJHH, 100 West 5th Street, Hamilton ON L8N 3K7 Canada
James A. Bourgeois, O.D., M.D., Clinical Professor, Psychiatry, Vice Chair, Clinical Affairs, University of California San Francisco/Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, 401 Parnassus Avenue (Box 0984-CLS), Room # 473, San Francisco CA 94143

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