Reviews for Aging and mental health

The average rating for Aging and mental health based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-05-20 00:00:00 Timothy Clark I read this book for grad school. It's directed towards clinical geropsychologists, people who counsel older adults and their family members. It helps define the needs of care recipients and caregivers as they negotiate through the uncharted waters of late-life health challenges. The book does list some services and programs, but it also addresses the emotional challenges during this time of transition. The clinician helps family members identify themselves as caretakers (sometimes this just creeps up as a spouse or parent has growing needs). They help assess the needs of the recipient as well as the caretaker and creates a plan for who will help address these needs. What can the care recipient do? What can the caretaker do? What can members of the broader kin network do? What services will be done by professionals? The mental, physical and social welfare of the caretaker is addressed throughout. If he or she isn't living a balanced life, then the care recipient will probably move into long-term care sooner when the caretaker becomes ill from the stress of caretaking duties. A few chapters will become dated because they discuss proposed legislation and proposed software packages. Nevertheless, the need for good laws and good technical support will persist.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-05-29 00:00:00 Marcie Davis Very quick and interesting read. I am surprised that not many people have read this book depending on amazon and goodreads. Probably because it is hard to get. This is proof to what i said just recently while reviewing Satan's Children by Dr. Robert S. Mayer about some psychiatrists who are so exited about multiple personality disorder, that they do the craziest things. Even suggest to the patients they are suffering from it. Only thing I very much did not like was the order this book was written. I prefer my books in chronological order.