Research on late-life depression and dementia care: across disciplines, across settings.-猫眼课题宝

关于晚年抑郁症和痴呆症护理的研究：跨学科、跨环境。

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10.1097/jgp.0b013e3181db6dad

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2010

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The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry

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Kiosses,DimitrisN;Arean,PatriciaA

The purpose of this special issue is to highlight advances in multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary care for older adults suffering from depression and/or dementia from the perspective of AAGP (American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry) members. The AAGP term “members”(formerly known as “affiliate members”) refers to nonpsychiatrists in contrast with “psychiatrist members”(formerly known as “full members”). The rationale for this issue emerged from a discussion at the 2008 AAGP annual convention in Orlando, FL among the (then) affiliate members of the organization regarding the importance of crossdisciplinary work and our role as participants in an organization composed primarily of one discipline, ie geriatric psychiatry. Members uniformly agreed that we contributed meaningfully to geriatric psychiatry (as evidenced by the number of cross-disciplinary symposia presented), and that we similarly benefited considerably from being members of a psychiatric organization. AAGP’s 1990 original decision to allow nonpsychiatrists to become affiliate members and the most recent influential decision to allow them to participate fully as members of the organization are instrumental steps toward moving the geriatric mental health field in a cross-disciplinary direction.The 2008 discussion then turned to the growing recognition by all disciplines of the importance of cross-disciplinary research collaboration in geriatric mental health. In particular, two approaches to cross-disciplinary collaboration are highlighted: multidisciplinary research, in which scholars from different disciplines work, independently or sequentially, in a shared project but retain the methods and concepts of their field, 1, 2 and interdisciplinary research in which scholars work, interactively or jointly, toward a common aim integrating their divergent perspectives. 1, 2 Thus, psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, social workers, pharmacists, primary care providers, neurologists, sociologists, and others are working together to understand the etiology of late-life psychiatric disorders, to modify systems of care and improve access to treatment, and create methods for reconceptualizing late-life mental illness to inform the development of better prevention strategies and treatments. It was the consensus of the group in 2008 to highlight these achievements, particularly by AAGP members, in a special issue in the primary journal of the organization.