UNSW Handbook Course - Psychiatry of Old Age

Psychiatry of Old Age - CMED9539


	Faculty: Faculty of Medicine
	School: School of Public Health and Community Medicine
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Postgraduate
	Units of Credit: 6
	Contact Hours per Week: 0
	Offered: To be advised
	Fee Band: 1

Description

This course deals with the major psychiatric disorders encountered in the care of older people (dementia; depression; paranoid disorders; late onset schizophrenia and mania; anxiety disorders; stress in late life). It covers the assessment and management of these disorders, as well as other relevant issues such as preventative psychiatry, psychological treatment for the elderly, family assessment and behavioural/psychiatric disturbances in the nursing home. This course is only available to students currently enrolled in the geriatric medicine programs: MMed, GradDip or GradCert.

Further Information

This course is no longer offered

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