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Collaborative Care and Geriatric Psychiatry

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Clinicians treating older adults should do multi-morbidity and individualized patient-centered assessment by a multidisciplinary collaborative team, including the patient’s individual health history, standardized rating scales, and laboratory workup. This assessment allows for a multi-morbidity patient-centered individualized treatment plan which takes into account both the old age patient’s physical and mental health and aims for the same values as the assessment, namely, a patient-centered, population-focused, and measurement-guided medical treatment. This chapter describes the two critical elements of this approach to geriatric psychiatry: (1) Establishing a correct diagnosis by way of targeted foundational aspects of the diagnostic interview, rating scales, and the laboratory workup of older adults and (2) Utilization of evidence-based collaborative care models for the elderly, with a description of the need for collaborative care models in the elderly, the necessary elements, the team structure, the evidence-based models in the elderly, and the limitations of the current state of collaborative care.

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  1. Weill Cornell Institute of Geriatric Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College, White Plains, NY, USA

    Jimmy N. Avari

  2. Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

    Alessandra Costanza & Kerstin Weber

  3. University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

    Alessandra Canuto

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA

    Allan Tasman

  2. Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Cent, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Michelle B. Riba

  3. Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Oakland, CA, USA

    Renato D. Alarcón

  4. Columbia University Medical Center, New York, USA

    César A. Alfonso

  5. Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

    Shigenobu Kanba

  6. Department of Psychiatry, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

    David M. Ndetei

  7. Malaysian Research Inst on Ageing, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia

    Chee H. Ng

  8. Department of Psychiatry, University of Munich, München, Bayern, Germany

    Thomas G. Schulze

  9. Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia

    Dusica Lecic-Tosevski

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    Michelle B. Riba

  2. Institute of Psychiatry, Departmet of Neurosciences and Rehabilitation, FERRARA, Italy

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Avari, J.N., Costanza, A., Weber, K., Canuto, A. (2023). Collaborative Care and Geriatric Psychiatry. In: Tasman, A., et al. Tasman’s Psychiatry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42825-9_57-1

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