Psychology and Geriatrics

Psychology and Geriatrics demonstrates the value of integrating psychological knowledge and insight with medical training and geriatric care. Leading physician and geropsychologist contributors come together to share their collective wisdom about topics that are as emotionally uncomfortable as they are universally relevant. As the world struggles to respond to unprecedented gains in life expectancy and an explosion of new retirees living with chronic health conditions, this collaboration could not be more timely. This exceptional resource is, itself, evidence that physicians and psychologists can work together to optimize truly patient-centered geriatric care. Here at last is a scientifically rigorous, evidence-based response to the aging mind and body from those most expertly trained.

Autorentext
Benjamin A. Bensadon, Ed. M, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the division of geriatric medicine through the department of aging and geriatric research. He is also a licensed clinical gero-psychologist. Dr. Bensadon's training and professional experience is centered on integrating psychology and medicine, with the goal of transforming primary care and creating an age-friendly health care system. To achieve this, Dr. Bensadon has co-authored book chapters on management decisions in mild cognitive impairment (Clinics in Geriatric Medicine) and geriatric neurology (Scientific American in press), and created and led a team of physicians and psychologists as editor of a collaborative text titled Psychology and Geriatrics: Integrated Care for an Aging Population (Elsevier). More recently he was one of 15 selected to the inaugural cohort of National Geriatrics Leadership Scholars by the American Geriatrics Society, Association of Directors of Academic Geriatric Programs, and Tideswell at UCSF. Prior to UF, Dr. Bensadon was an assistant professor at the Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University (FAU), where he served as associate director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program's Geriatrics & Palliative Care Rotation.

Throughout his young career, Dr. Bensadon has developed, implemented and evaluated training curricula in didactic and clinical settings for medical students and residents, advance practice nurses and other health sciences trainees. He has provided clinical services in long-term care/geriatric rehabilitation, outpatient primary care and specialty settings. He completed his doctoral training at the University of Florida and his postdoctoral residency and fellowship at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine.

Klappentext

This reference brings together psychological perspectives and medical approaches among professionals in research, educational, and clinical capacities to demonstrate the value of incorporating psychological knowledge and insight into medical training and care of geriatric patients. With a multidisciplinary panel of expert authors, this unprecedented book includes direct physician-psychologist communication, a model, itself, for integrated healthcare. Contributors will include leading doctors of psychology with proven expertise in elder care, a medical school curricula and evaluation authority, medical professionals with expertise in patient-physician communication, including related assessment tool development, implementation, and evaluation, and leading geriatrician clinician educators. Psychology and Geriatrics outlines a two-step path to integration: a) physicians become more sensitized and equipped with necessary psychological insight to effectively address psychological aspects of health, and b) collaborative efforts expand to include consultations with qualified psychologists to manage specific, non-biomedical, behavioral aspects of care.

Inhalt

Foreword
Introduction: Why Integrate?

1 Goal-Oriented Care
SUSAN L. CHARETTE, MARISTELA BARUIZ GARCIA AND DAVID B. REUBEN

2 Family Caregiving
STEVEN H. ZARIT AND JUDY M. ZARIT

3 Attitudes, Beliefs, and Behavior
BENJAMIN A. BENSADON

4 Communication
TRICIA A. MILLER AND M. ROBIN DIMATTEO

5 Culture of Medicine
WILLIE UNDERWOOD, III

6 Psychology Consult: When and Why
ROBERT L. MAIDEN, PETER LICHTENBERG AND BENJAMIN A. BENSADON

7 Managing Safety and Mobility Needs of Older Drivers
ARNE STINCHCOMBE, GERMAINE L. ODENHEIMER AND MICHEL BÉDARD

8 Person-Centered Suicide Prevention
PAUL R. DUBERSTEIN AND MARSHA N. WITTINK

9 End-of-Life Care
ELIZABETH C. GUNDERSEN

10 Experiential Learning and "Selling" Geriatrics
JONATHAN M. FLACKER

11 Simulation Education
BENJAMIN A. BENSADON