You can search for a geriatric psychiatrist by name or location, and the site will tell you who is close-by and whether or not they are board certified in geriatric psychiatry.
A caring geriatric psychiatrist, devoted to his patients far beyond the call of duty.
The APCATS team comprises geriatric psychiatrists, medical officers, psychologists, geriatric psychiatric nurses, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, and medical social workers.
Here is how geriatric psychiatrists tell the two conditions apart.
But geriatric psychiatrists and other experts see no reason that the old and infirm should not find some fulfillment in life.
The rate of major depression among the elderly in the community is slightly lower than among younger people, and geriatric psychiatrists say they are struck by the resiliency and stoicism of their patients.
Those who work with the elderly are called geriatric psychiatrists or geropsychiatrists.
Paul Kettl (born July 15, 1954) is an American geriatric psychiatrist.
"A lot of this is based on clinical judgment, not hard evidence," says Brent Forester, MD, a geriatric psychiatrist at McLean Hospital in Boston.
Dilip V. Jeste, M.D. is an American geriatric psychiatrist, who specializes in successful aging as well as schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders in older adults.