Psychogeriatrics Course
This course equips healthcare professionals with essential skills in psychogeriatrics, focusing on the assessment, diagnosis, and management of common mental health conditions in older adults, including depression, dementia, delirium, anxiety, and psychosis. Participants will learn to use validated tools, differentiate conditions, develop holistic care plans, optimize pharmacotherapy, and apply non-pharmacological interventions while addressing ethical and cultural considerations.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
The Psychogeriatrics Course provides practical skills to identify and handle depression, dementia, delirium, anxiety, and psychosis in older people. Learn targeted mental status assessments, apply tools like MoCA, GDS, CAM, and 4AT, and understand important lab tests and scans. Develop safe, person-focused care plans with non-drug and medication approaches, assist caregivers, manage safety concerns, and deal with ethical and cultural matters confidently in daily work.
Elevify advantages
Develop skills
- Quick mental status check for older folks: use focused tests for thinking and feelings.
- Tell apart depression, dementia, and delirium with a simple clinical guide.
- Create useful psychiatric care plans for elders including family and caregiver help.
- Improve prescribing of mind drugs for seniors using Beers, START/STOPP, and reducing meds.
- Use non-medicine ways to treat sleep problems, restlessness, and mood issues in later life.
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