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+ Target Audience: older adults including physicians, nurses, front-line staff, case managers/service coordinators, therapists, and clinicians. Family and caregivers are welcome to attend
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+ Information:
This year we celebrate the 15th year for this community-based conference focusing on the behavioral health needs of our older population. This year we will discuss three broad themes. Our first theme is populations with particularly challenging needs, including older adults with personality disorders, such narcissistic personality disorder, as well as continuing our discussion on addressing substance abuse in late life. The second theme focuses on cognition, specifically defining what is “normal cognitive aging” and identifying what can be early cognitive changes that suggest underlying disease. In addition, we will discuss medications, and specifically psychiatric medications, that can negatively impact cognition. Our third theme reflects the need for newer and better tools to treat late life depression; to that end, we will have a presentation on a newly developed evidenced-based brief psychotherapy for depression in late life.
Target Audience
Providers working with older adults including physicians, nurses, front-line staff, case managers/service coordinators, therapists, and clinicians. Family and caregivers are welcome to attend.
Learning Objectives
- Identify models which explain maladaptive personality traits in later life.
- Describe the motivation-behavior pathways in narcissistic personality disorder and other prominent personality disorders.
- Describe social isolation’s impact on clinical work with depressed patients.
- Discuss the impact of aging, cognitive and mood-related factors in psychotherapy for depression in later life.
- Describe trends in substance use in older adults.
- Identify the preferred treatment modalities for substance use in older adults.
- Define what is considered normal cognitive changes in later life.
- Differentiate between mild cognitive impairment and dementia.
- Describe the risks versus benefits of psychotropic use in the elderly.
- Identify best practices for use of psychotropic medication in the elderly.
+ Topics:
- 01 Working With Older Adults With Narcissistic or Other Personality Disorders
- 02 A Neuroscience-Informed Psychotherapy for Late-Life Depression
- 03 Substance Use Disorders (SUDs) in Older Adults
- 04 Older Adults, Family and Substance Use Disorders
- 05 Normal Aging and Pathological Cognitive Decline in Late Life (Part 1 of 2)
- 05 Normal Aging and Pathological Cognitive Decline in Late Life (Part 2 of 2)
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