Care setting overview
Geriatric Psychiatry / Older Adult Behavioral Health
BH-GER- Care model
- Age-attuned outpatient and collaborative psychiatric care
- Typical pace
- Longitudinal visits with collateral review, medication reconciliation, and rapid reassessment after acute change
- Population
- Older adults, including people living with cognitive impairment, medical complexity, frailty, or changing support needs
- Location
- shared building on Elm Hill
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Common presentations
- Late-life depression, anxiety, grief, sleep disturbance, and loneliness
- Cognitive or behavioral change, psychosis, agitation, and caregiver concern
- Polypharmacy, falls, medication sensitivity, substance use, and psychiatric symptoms during medical illness
PMHNP priorities
- Establish baseline cognition, function, and timeline of change
- Review medications, sensory needs, medical contributors, supports, and safety
- Balance symptom relief with fall, anticholinergic, metabolic, cardiovascular, and cognitive risks
Care team
PMHNPs, geriatric psychiatrists, primary care and geriatric clinicians, neurologists, pharmacists, nurses, social workers, therapists, rehabilitation clinicians, and caregivers