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Comprehensive Geriatric Assessmentnt of the medical and nonmedical components of the treatment plan. An older adult’s functional status too often is the unrecognized collateral damage of chronic systemic medical and psychiatric illness. Not only can it influence the expression and severity of psychiatric morbidity, but it can also b

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Neuropsychology in Late Lifehological assessment with older adult patients, highlighting the importance of integrating developmental, medical, psychosocial, and cognitive factors when formulating neurocognitive diagnoses in the older adult patient population. Overall, this chapter will assist clinicians working with older adul

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Neuromodulation Therapies II: Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and Deep Brain Stimulatioent protocols involving longer treatment courses and higher intensity of treatment parameters are showing promise in treating depressive disorders in older adults, with response rates of 30–60% and remission rates of 10–30%. rTMS is a useful addition to the armamentarium of treatments in geriatric p

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Ethics, Mental Health Law, and Aging, such as public safety and protection of vulnerable persons. Specific topics include decisional capacity assessments, informed consent, advance directives, guardianship, involuntary commitment, elder abuse, and end-of-life decision-making. The chapter further explores ethical factors related to the

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Late-Life Bipolar Disorders disorders including the diagnosis, assessment, and evidence-based treatment of the bipolar disorders. The construct of “mixed mood episode” has also garnered much attention in recent years, with research in the area affecting views on management. This chapter also contains two case studies which de

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Late-Life Anxiety Disordersducted in order to establish a baseline, to allow for future monitoring, and to guide treatment. Treatment should include providing psychoeducation, psychotherapeutic approaches (e.g., cognitive-behavioral, behavioral, interpersonal, and mindfulness-based psychotherapies), and pharmacotherapy. Comor