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Adapted psychotherapy for suicidal geriatric patients with depression
ABSTRACT: This debate article aims to evaluate whether current diagnostic and therapeutic options for suicidal geriatric patients with depression suffice, and which adapted strategies might be helpful. We hope to encourage clinicians to consider special approaches when treating the elderly. BACKGROU...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6006781/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29914407 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-018-1775-y |
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author | Conell, Jörn Lewitzka, Ute |
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description | ABSTRACT: This debate article aims to evaluate whether current diagnostic and therapeutic options for suicidal geriatric patients with depression suffice, and which adapted strategies might be helpful. We hope to encourage clinicians to consider special approaches when treating the elderly. BACKGROUND: Suicide in old age is a major public health problem, as the suicide rates are highest among those aged 60 years and older in most European countries. Although pharmacological treatment options are relatively easy for older patients to obtain, their access to standard psychotherapy is limited. The reasons for this are i) the widely shared attitude about the effectiveness of psychotherapy for older people and ii) the limited access to standard psychotherapy due to their immobility. CONCLUSION: New psychotherapeutic methods need to be developed. Psychotherapy at the patient’s home seems to be a new approach to accommodate that individual’s personal circumstances and make effective therapy possible. |
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spelling | pubmed-60067812018-06-26 Adapted psychotherapy for suicidal geriatric patients with depression Conell, Jörn Lewitzka, Ute BMC Psychiatry Debate ABSTRACT: This debate article aims to evaluate whether current diagnostic and therapeutic options for suicidal geriatric patients with depression suffice, and which adapted strategies might be helpful. We hope to encourage clinicians to consider special approaches when treating the elderly. BACKGROUND: Suicide in old age is a major public health problem, as the suicide rates are highest among those aged 60 years and older in most European countries. Although pharmacological treatment options are relatively easy for older patients to obtain, their access to standard psychotherapy is limited. The reasons for this are i) the widely shared attitude about the effectiveness of psychotherapy for older people and ii) the limited access to standard psychotherapy due to their immobility. CONCLUSION: New psychotherapeutic methods need to be developed. Psychotherapy at the patient’s home seems to be a new approach to accommodate that individual’s personal circumstances and make effective therapy possible. BioMed Central 2018-06-19 /pmc/articles/PMC6006781/ /pubmed/29914407 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-018-1775-y Text en © The Author(s). 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Debate Conell, Jörn Lewitzka, Ute Adapted psychotherapy for suicidal geriatric patients with depression |
title | Adapted psychotherapy for suicidal geriatric patients with depression |
title_full | Adapted psychotherapy for suicidal geriatric patients with depression |
title_fullStr | Adapted psychotherapy for suicidal geriatric patients with depression |
title_full_unstemmed | Adapted psychotherapy for suicidal geriatric patients with depression |
title_short | Adapted psychotherapy for suicidal geriatric patients with depression |
title_sort | adapted psychotherapy for suicidal geriatric patients with depression |
topic | Debate |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6006781/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29914407 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-018-1775-y |
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