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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785377603321

Autore

Berman Jacquelin

Titolo

Depressed older adults [[electronic resource] ] : education and screening / / Jacquelin Berman, Lisa M. Furst

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY, : Springer, 2010

ISBN

1-282-91601-7

9786612916014

0-8261-7103-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (250 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FurstLisa M

Disciplina

618.97/68527

Soggetti

Depression in old age

Geriatric psychiatry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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