Geriatric Cognitive and Behavioral Health Policy and Practice

Overviews of Geriatric Cognitive and Behavioral Health

  • Confronting The Challenges of Aging   (2023)   view
  • Meeting MH Challenges of Elder Boom for NAMI (2022)   view
  • Cognitive & /Behavioral Health Policy: Challenges and Controversies (2022)   view
  • Presentation to AAPI Maryland  (2022)   view
  • Cognitive and Behavioral Health in Old Age (2021)   view
  • Presentation to NYC DFTA  (2021)     view
  • Meeting the Mental Health Challenges of the Elder Boom (book chapter) (2017)   view

Advance Directives

  • Do Advance Directives Now (2020)  view

Advocacy

  • Advocacy For Cognitive and Behavioral Health (2022)   view
  • Meet The Coagnitive and Behavioral Challenges of the Elder Boom   view
  • 10 Years Into The Elder Boom: Miles to Go (2021)   view
  • Statement To The Maryland Aging Commission (2021   view
  • Geriatric Behavioral Health: Leading the Way in NYS (2019)   view
  • Fund Geriatric Mental Health: Senate Testimony (2019)   view
  • 10 Policy Issues About Geriatric Behavioral Health (2018)   view
  • Advocate for Older Adults With Mental Illness   (2017)   view

Age-Friendly Communities

  • Age-Friendly Communities--Guide for Planners (2010)   view
  • Preparing Communities for the Elder Boom (2009)   view

Aging Well

  • Walking and Mental Well-Being   view
  • Volunteering Can Make Old Age Meaningful   view
  • Jazz in Retirement (2021)   view
  • Moral Obligations To Society (2018)   view
  • Moral Obligations in Old Age (2016)   view
  • Being Great In Old Age (2015)  view
  • Not Such A Grumpy Old Man: Review of Essays After Eighty (2015)   view
  • Doctors Can Promote Successful Aging (2015)  view
  • Aging Well Is Not An Oxymoron (2015)   view
  • Successful Aging: The Challenge of Regret and Guilt (2014)  view
  • Sucessesful Aging Fortunately Is Subjective (2014)   view
  • Integrated Treatment for Successful Aging (2014)   view
  • There Is Life After 70: A Review of Last Vegas (2013)   view
  • Feel Good About Being Old: See Red 2 (2013) view
  • The Other Side of the World: A Book Reveiw (2012)   view
  • Psychologically Ready To Be Old (2011)   view
  • Creating and Helping: Key To Aging Well (2011)   view
  • Challenge Can Be Met (2011)   view
  • Facing Mortality (2011)   view
  • Mental Health Is The Essence of Aging Well (2008)   view

Anxiety

  • Identifying and Treating Anxiety Disorders in Old Age (2012)   view

Being Very Old

  • Not Sure I Want To Be 100 (2016) View

Behavioral Challenges

  • Behavioral Health Challenges in Home Care (2010)  view
  • Paranoia is a Barrier to Aging in the Community (2010)   view

Caregivers

  • My Aunt and Me (2008)   view
  • Our Debt to Family Caregivers (2010)   view
  • Grandparents Raising Grandchildren (2010)   View
  • Mental Health Needs in Kinship Care (2010)   View 

Creativity in Old Age

  • Creative Art and Aging Well (2016)   view
  • Creative Art and Well-Being in Old Age (2015)  view
  • Do Art (2015)   view

Data Re. Cognitive and Behavioral Health

  • National Cagnitive and Behavioral Health Data 2022   view
  • Cognitive and Behavioral Health Data: Maryland 2022   view
  • Cognitive and Behavioral Health Data: New York 2022   view
  • 2018 Geriatric Mental Health Data Book   view

Death and Dying

  • Being My Mother's Health Care Proxy (2016)   view
  • Noteworthy Deaths (2016)   view
  • We Are Not Ready: On Gawande's Being Mortal (2014)  view

Deaths of Despair

  • Deaths of Despair (2018)   view

Dementia

  • No Way To Know: A Meditation (2013) view
  • Music and Living with Dementia (2012)   view
  • Draft National Alzheimer's Plan Is Disappointing (2012)   view
  • Address Mental Health Needs of People with Dementia (2012)   view
  • Meet The Mental Health Needs of People With Dementia (2012)   view
  • Antidepressants For People With Dementia? (2011)   view
  • Dealing With Anger In A Person With Dementia (2011)   view
  • When A Loved One Is Lost In Time (2011)   view
  • Caregivers:Meaningful Relationships Despite Memory Loss (2011)   view
  • Don't Blame Dementia (2011)    view pdf
  • Life After Dementia (2011)   view
  • Conversation When Memory Fades (2011)   view
  • Cognitive Camouflage (2009)   view

Depression

  • Behavioral Activation Therapy for Depression (2013)  view
  • Overcoming Unhappiness in Residential Settings (2012)   view
  • Considerations Re. Using Antidepressants (2011)   view
  • Antidepressants: Risks for Elderly (2011)   view
  • Aging Well: Depression Can Be Overcome (2011)   view
  • Aging Well: The Dangers of Depression (2011)  view

Disability

  • Wheelchairs Can Set You Free: If You Use Them (2013)   view

Disasters

  • Ageism During Disasters (2011)   view
  • Case Management for Older Persons in Disasters (2010)   view

Elder Abuse

  • Elder Abuse: Challenges To The Mental Health System (2017)   view
  • Be On The Lookout for Elder Abuse (2014)  view

Elder Boom

  • Meeting the BH Challenges of the Elder Boom for DFTA (2021)   view
  • Geriatric Behavioral Health Matters (2019)   view
  • Meeting the MH Challenges of the Elder Boom: Book Chapter (2017)   view
  • Meeting the MH Challenges of the Elder Boom: Book Chapter (2012)    view
  • Meeting the MH Challenges of the Elder Boom: Blog Post (2011)   view

Elder Law

  • Meeting the MH Challenges of the Elder Boom for Lawyers (2007) view

Epidemiology

  • High Occurence of Mood and Anxiety Disorders Among Older Adults (2010)   view

Geriatric MH Finance

  • There Could be more Money for Geriatric Mental Health (2007)   view

Geriatric MH Act

  • Promise of Geriatric Mental health in New York State (2006)    view

Generational Competence

  • A Behavioral Health Workforce for an Aging America (2016)  view
  • Generational Competence: A New Conceptual Framework (2011)   view

Healthcare Reform

  • Medicaid Redesign: Impact on Older Adults (2014)   view
  • ACA Could Benefit Elders With MI (2012)   view

Healthy Aging

  • Put Mental Health Into Healthy Aging (2019)   view

Housing

  • Housing For Older Adults With Psychiatric Disabilities: Policy Changes (2017)   view
  • Housing For Older Adults With Psychiatric Disabilities (2014) view

Insomnia

  • Insomnia in Old Age (2017)   view

Integrating Cognitive and Behavioral Health

  • One Mind, Too Many Silos (2023)   view
  • One Mind, Many Silos (2022)   view
  • Treating The Individual: Advice for Physicians (Aging Well, Fall 2011)   view
  • Physical and Mental Health Nexus (Aging Well, Fall 2010)   view

Long-Term Care

  • Behavioral Health Challenges in Home  Care (2010)   view
  • Mental Health, Long-Term Care Must Be Linked (2005)   view
  • Recovery in Long-Term Care (2009)   view
  • Mental Health Key to Long-Term Care (A Report) (2008)   view
  • Behavioral Health and Long-Term Care (2009)   view

Medicare

  • Medicare Could Be Worse (2005)   view
  • More Money For Geriatric Mental Health (2007)   view

Memory

  •  Conversation When Memory Fades (2011)  view

Minority Elders

  • Asian-American Geriatric Mental Health Challenges (2006)  view
  • Serving Depressed Latino Elders (2005)   view

Pandemic

  • Psychological Fallout of the Pandemic on Older Adults (2020)   view

Paranoia

  • Paranoia is a Barrier to Aging in the Community (2010)   view

Reports and Backgrounders

  • Aging People with Serious, Long-Term Psychiatric Disabilities (2006)   view
  • Asian-American Geriatric Mental Health Challenges (2006)  view
  • Barriers to Meeting the Mental Health Needs of Older Adults (2006)   view
  • Briefing Book on Geriatric Mental Health (2010)   view
  • Geriatric Mental Health Focus Group Findings (2006)   view
  • Geriatric Mental Health Issues Brief (2008)   view
  • Housing Aging People with Serious Psychiatric Disabilities (2008)   view
  • Latino Geriatric Mental Health Needs (2006)  view
  • Meeting the Mental Health Challenges of the Elder Boom (2009)   view
  • Mental Health Key to Long-Term Care (2008)   view
  • Services for Older Adults--Chart and Glossary (2006)   view
  • Workforce Development For Geriatric Mental Health(2007)   view

Retirement

  • When I Grow Up: Thoughts At 70 (2013)   view
  • Are You Psychologically Ready To Retire? (2011)   view

Serious Mental Illness in Old Age

  • Successfull Aging of People With Serious MH Challenges   view
  • Policy Issues Re. SPMI in Later Life (2021)   view
  • Schizophrenia In Old Age: Public Policy Issues (2019)   view 

Suicide

  • Elder Suicide Prevention by Doctors (2018)   view
  • Elder Suicide: A Public Health Challenge (2012)   view

Substance Misuse

  • Old, Drinking Too Much (2015)   view
  • Substance Misuse and Abuse Among Older Adults (2014) view
  • Prescription Drug Abuse By Older Adults (2014)  view
  • Elder Substance Abuse: Be Careful? (2011)   view
  • Substance Abuse In Older Adults (2008)   view

Veterans

  • Reduce Suicide Among Older Veterans (2023)   view
  • Older Veterans Also Have Mental Health Needs (2012)   view
  • Let's Not Forget Older Veterans (2012)   view