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Psychogeriatrics Course

Psychogeriatrics Course
from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country

What will I learn?

The Psychogeriatrics Course equips you with practical skills to identify and handle depression, dementia, delirium, anxiety, and psychosis in older adults. You will learn targeted mental status assessments, apply tools like MoCA, GDS, CAM, and 4AT, and analyse essential lab results and scans. Develop secure, individual-focused care strategies incorporating non-drug and pharmacological methods, assist caregivers, tackle safety concerns, and manage ethical and cultural challenges confidently in daily practice.

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Develop skills

  • Conduct quick mental status exams for older adults, focusing on cognitive and mood evaluations.
  • Distinguish between depression, dementia, and delirium with a straightforward clinical approach.
  • Create effective psychiatric care plans for seniors, involving family and caregiver input.
  • Improve prescribing of psychiatric medications for the elderly using Beers criteria, START/STOPP, and deprescribing techniques.
  • Apply non-medication approaches to manage sleep issues, agitation, and mood problems in later life.

Suggested summary

Before starting, you can change the chapters and workload. Choose which chapter to start with. Add or remove chapters. Increase or decrease the course workload.
Workload: between 4 and 360 hours

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