Exam 16: Aging and Issues in Psychological Disorders

The Geriatric Suicide Ideation Scale (GSIS) has four subscales including:

If Sally were an older woman with depression who started a therapy that involved reattributing a personal failure to contextual factors instead of personal deficits, she would be doing:

Delirium can be distinguished from dementia in that delirium is associated with:

Describe cohort effects and time-of-measurement effects. How do these issues figure in research with older adults?

Results from the Canadian Study of Health and Aging (CSHA) indicated that acute, sudden onset of dementia:

Setting the age at which one is considered 'old,' which is now 65, is based upon:

In comparison to people who have been depressed earlier in life, people with late-onset depression:

From his review of the literature, Alistair Flint from the University of Toronto concluded that the most prevalent anxiety disorder among the elderly was:

Research by Vinkers et al. (2004) and others suggests that the most important risk factor for depression in the elderly is:

Beatrice, a 72-year-old woman complains to her doctor of a noticeable loss in appetite, anhedonia and reduced vitality. She is also feeling more hopeless than usual and generally feels quite achy, without obvious signs for the pain. She denies feelings of guilt or sad mood. The diagnosis of __________best fits Beatrice's presentation.

New personality research by Gottlieb and Rooney (2004) suggests that caregivers of people with dementia maintain high levels of functioning if caregivers have a high level of:

Hébert and his Quebec team lead the PRISMA project on the promotion of autonomy and wellbeing in the frail elderly (Hébert et al., 2009). The integrated care proposed by the PRISMA project is composed of:

Discuss the different treatment care options for families with older adult members requiring treatment beyond that possible in the home.

A project aiming at screening for depression and intervening at the primary care level in older adults (Alexopoulos et al., 2009) found the following:

Canadian studies of depressive symptoms have shown that _________ are less common among older depressed individuals than among younger depressed adults.

Diagnostic criteria in DSM-5 are the same for adults and older adults (i.e., seniors)

What are the three different types of dementia and how do they differ from each other?

Eliza is an intern at a mental health facility. She notices that very few of the clients are elderly and asks her supervisor why. If he holds typical views about the benefits of psychological treatment for the elderly, his reply may be:

According to Canadian researcher Herbert, "The Big Boom" will have a tremendous impact on Canada's heath system. "The Big Boom" refers to an increase in the:

Interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) has been found to be effective with treating depression in adults (Miller and colleagues, 2003), as long as the focus is on______________ not on _____________.