On-Call Geriatric Psychiatry, 1st ed. 2016 Handbook of Principles and Practice

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.

The on-call psychiatric examination of the geriatric patient.- The on-call physical examination of the geriatric patient.- The on-call psychopharmacology and psychotherapy principles.- Decisional capacity assessment, advance directives, and medical ethics.- The on-call use of seclusion, chemical and physical restraint.- Telephone consultations.- Principles of safe clinical handover.- Emergency medicine settings.- Acute inpatient settings.- Subacute medical settings.- Outpatient medical facilities.- Residential medical settings.- Correctional settings.- On-call telepsychiatry settings.- The chief psychiatric complaints.- The chief physical complaints.- The chief adverse effects of medications.- The complaints of physical and sexual trauma.- The dementia patients and sexual consent.- Suicide and violence prevention and control in on-call emergencies: a public health approach.- Aging with neurodevelopmental disorders: on-call psychiatric assessment and policy issues.- Elder abuse and neglect: physical and behavioural indicators and policy issues.- Gender issues in the on-call care of the geriatric patient.- Homelessness in the geriatric patient: on-call intervention, bridging and recovery.- On-call teaching and education.- On-call cultural issues in the geriatric patient.- On-call administrative, public health policy, and future directives of the geriatric care.

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

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