Depressed older adults : education and screening / Jacquelin Berman, Lisa M. Furst.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berman, Jacquelin.

Contributor:

Furst, Lisa M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Depression in old age.

Geriatric psychiatry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Springer, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Late life depression has become increasingly prevalent among older adults. This book presents guidelines to help enable aging and social service programs to establish a mental health education and screening program focused on late-life depression. This 2-time award-winning model presented in this book offers a practical and culturally-sensitiveapproach to mental health education which can be adapted by service programs seeking to identify clinical depression among their older adult clientele. Additionally, this program offers professionals serving older adults an opportunity to increase their

Contents:

Depressed Older Adults: Education and Screening; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Depression Among Older Adults; 2. Evidence-Based Models of Intervention for Older Adults With Depression; 3. Educating About Depression: Approaches for Older Adults, Their Service Providers, and Community Members; 4. Implementing Depression Screening; 5. Connecting Older Adults to Treatment: Pretreatment Care Management; 6. Developing Program Materials for Outreach and Education; 7. How to Implement EASE-D in Your Community; 8. The Benefits and Challenges of Program Implementation; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-91601-7

9786612916014

0-8261-7103-6

OCLC:

688215122