Book Description
Hartman-Stein's new book offers timely guidance to policymakers and the general public. With all the effort we make to live longer, we also must be willing to take the steps illuminated here to enhance the quality and satisfaction possible in our later years. Here is a new resource to push us forward.
-- John D. Rockefeller IV, U.S. Senator, West Virginia

Innovative Behavioral Healthcare for Older Adults contains lucid descriptions of cutting-edge programs, services, and research in addition to well-reasoned prophecies of the future. Mental health professionals interested in serving the rapidly growing population of older adults would do well to read this book.
--Cameron J. Camp, Myers Research Institute, Menorah Park Center for the Aging

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Mental healthcare for older adults has been a minor specialty for a select group of clinicians and a largely neglected social issue for policymakers. However, the "graying of America" and the increased demand for mental healthcare by our aging population raises the question, "How will we provide and pay for these services?"Innovative Behavioral Healthcare for Older Adults makes a compelling case for the cost-cutting advantages of offering mental health programs to the fastest-growing segment of our population. The authors outline cutting-edge clinical and political guidelines for organizing and delivering behavioral healthcare to older adults. This important resource is written in straightforward, jargon-free language by administrators and practitioners who direct and run some of the most successful mental health programs for older adults in the country. These experts present the most current research, techniques, and model programs for cost-effective and quality assessment and psychotherapy, including

• Group interventions for posttraumatic stress disorder and complicated grief
• Proven outreach prevention programs for new widows and Alzheimer's caregivers
• Effective group therapy models for older adults
• An integrated program of medical and behavioral care for frail elderly to prevent nursing home placement
• A practical and innovative therapy model for depression
• Behavioral outcome measures in long-term care

In addition, the book offers practical suggestions for marketing geriatric behavioral health services and provides useful advice on issues of liability that arise when signing a Medicare managed-care contract. The book also describes innovative roles and services that offer creative opportunities for clinicians.

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