Psychiatric Care in the Nursing Home

This is a comprehensive review of the present state of knowledge about mental illness in the long-term care setting. It provides clinical guidelines for the evaluation and treatment of a range of psychiatric disorders that complicate the care of nursing home residents.

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This is a comprehensive review of the present state of knowledge about mental illness in the long-term care setting. Recognised experts in geriatrics provide up-to-date recommendations for the evaluation and treatent of the full range of psychiatric disorders that complicate the care of nursing home residents. Among the topics reviewed in depth are the description, diagnosis, and treatment of depression, anxiety, agitation, sexual dysfunction, sleep disorders, substance abuse, and psychosis. Contemporary strategies for successful psychopharmacologic and psychotherapeutic treatments are discussed in detail. Special considerations related to dementia and delirium in the nursing home setting are also presented, as well as ethical, medico-legal problems and the special needs of residents with mental retardation.