On-Call Geriatric Psychiatry (eBook)

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 CanadaJames 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

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.