Wednesday, 20 August 2003: 13:45-15:15 | |||
S061 Management Issues in Geriatric Consultation Liaison Psychiatry | |||
| There is relatively little research that can guide best practice management of older people with psychiatric and behavioral problems on medical wards. Psychiatric outcomes of treatments implemented in general hospital settings are modest at best. This may be due to issues that include diagnostic difficulties, the effects of the physical illness, inadequate treatment and inadequate follow-up. This symposium will cover some of the main issues that confront geriatric consultation liaison psychiatrists. The following topics will be covered: common behavioral disorders that lead to a liaison psychiatry referral; somatisation in the older hospitalised patient and issues of diagnosis and management; psychotic disorders in the medical ward context; the use of ECT in medically sick patients; and the outcomes of the management of depression in the hospitalised physically ill elderly. | |||
| Chairs: | Brian Draper Pamela Melding | ||
| S061-001 Management of Anxiety Disorders in the CL Setting Alastair Flint | |||
| S061-002 Depression in Older General Hospital Patients: Treatment Outcomes Brian Draper | |||
| S061-003 ECT in the Physically Ill Older Patient B Mulsant | |||
| S061-004 Psychotic Disorders in Older People in CL Settings Nicola Lautenschlager, Helen McGowan, Osvaldo P. Almeida | |||
| S061-005 Somatization in Older People in the General Hospital Pamela Melding | |||
| S061-006 Treatment of Older Patients with Behavioral Problems in CL Settings David Ames | |||
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