Geriatric Forensic Psychiatry

<em>Geriatric Forensic Psychiatry: Principles and Practice</em> is one of the first texts to provide a comprehensive review of important topics in the intersection of geriatric psychiatry medicine clinical neuroscience forensic psychiatry and law. It will speak to a broad audience among varied fields including clinical and forensic psychiatry and mental health professionals geriatricians and internists attorneys and courts regulators and other professionals working with the older population. <p/>Topics addressed in this text applied to the geriatric population include clinical forensic evaluation regulations and laws civil commitment different forms of capacity guardianship patient rights medical-legal issues related to treatment long term care and telemedicine risk management patient safety and error reduction elder driving sociopathy and aggression offenders and the adjudication process criminal evaluations corrections ethics culture cognitive impairment substance abuse trauma older professionals high risk behavior and forensic mental health training and research. Understanding the relationship between clinical issues laws and regulations and managing risk and improving safety will help to serve the growing older population.<br>