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Introduction to Geriatric Behavioral Healthcare |
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If you have a nursing home, assisted living facilitiy, regilious or community group that would like to learn more about psychiatric care for the elderly, contact us. We can arrange to come talk with your group about issues facing senior citizens and their families, and ways to help. Possible topics include: - Identifying depression in the elderly
- De-escalation skills for agitated seniors
- Coping with caregiver stress
- Dementia from A-Z
- The importance of medication management
- When to refer a client in crisis
- Steps to insure continued recovery
- Substance abuse and prescription drug misuse among the elderly
- Suicide and seniors - the hidden threat
- And many others!
We can customize training to meet your needs. We can do "lunch and learn" sessions for different shifts. We want to be your resource for all your geriatric behavioral healthcare needs.
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