Assessing Older Persons: Measures, Meaning and Practical Applications

Abstract

The first section deals with assessment content, and has chapters on the assessment of function, health and physiological well-being, social functioning, quality of life, & values and preferences, satisfaction, spiritual, caregivers, and physical environments. The two chapters of greatest interest to clinicians will be cognitive assessment which includes dementia screening, and the chapter on emotions which includes depression and anxiety. The next section contains chapters on application: comprehensive geriatric assessment and management, care planning, long term care, mandated assessments, and adults who cannot communicate. The conclusion does an excellent summation and comparison, and focuses on trends and challenges. There is a dozen page double column index. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)