This book offers mental health guidelines for all medical professionals facing the emerging
challenges presented by an aging population worldwide. The text acknowledges that as the
geriatric demographic grows limited resources and infrastructures demand quality protocols to
deliver inpatient geriatric psychiatric care and that many physicians may not be trained to
address these specific needs. This text fills this gap with guidelines assessing diagnosing
and treating aging patients as they present in the emergency room and other settings. Unlike
any other text this book focuses on how to optimize the use of the inpatient setting by
recommending evaluations and treatments and offering flow-charts and figures of key points to
guide both general workup and continued evaluation and treatment. This approach aims to
minimize instances of premature release or readmissions and to improve outcomes. Chapters cover
the various issues that clinicians face when working with an older patient including legal
topics limitations to treatment prescription-related complications patients struggling with
substance abuse and various behavioral concerns. Written by experts in the field the text
takes a multidisciplinary approach to deliver high-quality care as needs of the aging
population evolve. Inpatient Geriatric Psychiatry is a vital resource for all clinicians
working with an aging population including geriatricians psychiatrists neurologists primary
care providers hospitalists psychologists neuropsychologists emergency room and geriatric
nurses social workers and trainees.
