Treatment - Social /
Environmental
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Choice of treatment when an intervention on a social or environmental level is required, there is a lack of family involvement, the elder cannot function independently anymore, the legal system is involved (i.e. gravely disabled elder in home alone). | |
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Clinicians trained in geriatrics are involved (social worker, home health nurse, geriatrician or geriatric psychiatrist, a community private service agency, or private case manager). | |
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Some social circumstances of the elderly and social prejudices about old age often enhance depression. | |
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Need to be aware that there are different and distinctive social milieus of older adults including age-segregated housing, age-segregated services, senior citizen social and recreational centers, etc. | |
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Assessment is made and either structure is added, social adjustments are made, the elder receives reliable and practical help, respite for cargivers is initiated or other resources are added to assist the elder through the crisis. |
