期刊全称 | Age-Adjusted Psychiatric Treatment for the Older Patient | 影响因子2023 | Howard H. Fenn,James A. Bourgeois,Catharine Birtle | 视频video | | 发行地址 | Offers practical, age-adjusted recommendations to treat psychiatric symptoms and syndromes in geriatric patients.Focuses on how to minimize psychopharmacotherapy and polypharmacy in the geriatric pati | 图书封面 |  | 影响因子 | .This book offers practical age-adjusted recommendations to treat the most common psychiatric symptoms and syndromes in the geriatric patient. The principles described here are not new; advice for prescribing to the aging patient has always been to “start low, go slow.” This book fleshes out that dictum based on research evidence, clinical experience, and trends in the literature. An age-adjusted approach endorses medication interventions when needed as part of a comprehensive treatment plan. A combination of psychotherapeutic interventions, non-pharmacological modalities, and judiciously managed medications can improve quality of life and minimize risks inherent in pharmacotherapy applied to aging physiology..Age-Adjusted Psychiatric Treatment for the Older Patient. is divided into five sections, covering the foundations of evaluation and treatment, neurocognitive disorders, psychiatric syndromes, therapeutics and interventions, and special topics. Each chapter begins with a complex case example that illustrates the topic. It then reviews current evidence-based evaluation and treatments. Age-adjusted recommendations, distilled from the literature, are offered at the end of each ch | Pindex | Book 2024 |
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