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THE WHO, WHAT, AND WHYOFACUTE GEROPSYCHIATRY INPATIENT CARE
Connie Marsh MD
Clinical Associate Professor
University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita
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ACUTE PSYCHOGERIATRIC CARE
• Important component of comprehensive services
• Safe and rapid treatment
• Prevention of chronic institutionalization
• Correct diagnosis
• Timely treatment
• Clinical improvement
• Rehabilitation
• Resocialization
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PRINCIPALS OF ACUTE GEROPSYCHIATRY CARE
• Multidisciplinary staffing
• Preadmission screening
• Maintaining the patient in the community
• Beginning discharge planning at admission
• Collaborating with community agencies
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MULTIDISCIPLINARY STAFFING
• Team
• Special interest in psychiatry of old age
• Knowledge of social interventions
• Knowledge of medical issues
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MULTIDISCIPLINARY STAFFINGMEDICAL ISSUES
• More that 75% of patients have at least one medical issue
• Majority have 3-4 medical issues
• Most common—atherosclerosis
• Medical illnesses
• Precipitate psychiatric admissions
• Complicate treatment
• Can be underlying reason for psychiatric symptoms
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WHO ARE THE TEAM MEMBERS?
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MULTIDISCIPLINARY STAFFINGTEAM MEMBERS
• Psychiatrist
• Nursing
• Social Work
• Therapists
• PT/OT
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WHY DO PREADMISSION SCREENING?
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PREADMISSION SCREENING
• Prevent unnecessary admissions
• Prevent inappropriate admissions
• Prepare realistic discharge plans
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MAINTAINING PATIENT IN THE COMMUNITY
• Commitment to returning patient to community
• Family and friends provided education and participate in care plan
• Community has organized network of mental health services and aging services
• Coordination between inpatient and community support services
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WHAT COMMUNITY SERVICES HELP MAINTAIN PATIENT IN THE COMMUNITY?
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MAINTAINING PATIENT IN THE COMMUNITY
• Community Resources
• Respite Care facilities
• Adult Day Care
• Senior Centers/Activities
• Home Health agencies
• Hospice agencies
• Resources for families
• Alzheimer’s Association
• Central Plains Area Agency of Aging
• Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services
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WHY DO DISCHARGE PLANNING ON ADMIT?
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DISCHARGE PLANNING AT ADMISSION
• Understand patient’s living situation
• Maintaining the patient’s community resources
• Dealing with obstacles to returning home
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DISCHARGE PLANNING AT ADMISSION
• Psychosocial history
• Assess family’s expectations for hospitalization and discharge place
• If appropriate, review finances to determine affordability of discharge plan
• If appropriate, help family begin Medicaid application process
• Facilitate DPOA for health care, finances
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COLLABORATION WITH COMMUNITY AGENCIES
• Maintaining patient in the community
• Reduction of length of stay and readmission rates
• Coordination of aftercare
• Collaboration with community resources
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GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRY INPATIENT UNITS
• Types of units
• Part of general psychiatric units
• Separate, smaller unit
• Separate units
• Therapeutic milieu actively addresses problems of aging
• Specialized staff
• Specialized programing
• Specialized physical space
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DESIGN:HOW CAN DESIGN BEST ACCOMMODATE
FOR AGE RELATED DECLINES?
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DESIGN OF UNIT
• Accommodations for age related decline
• Visual impairment
• Excellent lighting
• Large print reading materials
• Easy to read signs
• Hearing impairment
• Sound proofing interview rooms/dining rooms
• Minimizing extraneous noise
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DESIGN OF UNIT
• Accommodations for age related decline
• Fall risk
• Nonskid flooring
• Wide corridors
• Well located restrooms
• Uncluttered rooms
• Allow for safe wandering and exercise
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DESIGN OF UNIT
• Maintain everyday skills
• Laundry room
• Kitchen area
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INDICATIONS FOR INPATIENT TREATMENT
• Imminent danger to self or others
• Intensive evaluation or treatment required
• Failure of the caregiving system
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WHAT IS IMMINENT DANGER TO SELF OR OTHERS?
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IMMINENT DANGER TO SELF OR OTHERS
• Suicidal
• Homicidal, violent, or aggressive behaviors
• Threatening behavior while acutely psychotic
• Inability to attend to basic or essential care needs
• Dangerous wandering behavior
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INTENSIVE EVALUATION OR TREATMENT REQUIRED
• Intensive Evaluation
• Difficult diagnostic issues requiring close observation
• Multiple medical problems or drug sensitivities
• Treatment
• Drug or alcohol issues
• Acute psychosis
• Severe depression or mania
• Need for electroconvulsive therapy
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FAILURE OF CAREGIVING SYSTEM
• Caregiver dies, leaves, or needs relief
• Depletion of care resources
• Lack of or failure of community resources
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WHAT ARE INAPPROPRIATE ADMISSIONS?
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INAPPROPRIATE ADMISSIONS
• Medical needs are urgent and overshadowing psychiatric condition
• Comatose or moribund patient
• Patient only requires placement or other social support services
• Patients who could be treated in less intensive setting
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WHAT IS TREATED ON AN ACUTE GEROPSYCHIATRY UNIT?
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PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSES
• Depends upon unit type, medical support
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PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSES
• Affective disorders
• Depressive disorders
• Bipolar affective disorders
• Delirium
• Major neurocognitive disorders (dementias)
• Alcohol and substance abuse
• Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders
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ASSESSMENT AND DIAGNOSIS
• Medical
• Evaluation, labs, imaging, medication review
• Psychiatric
• Evaluation including careful history
• Can take time, review medical records, interview multiple family members, friends
• SLUMS, MMSE
• Observation
• Patients can tend to exaggerate or minimize sx
• Sleep, food intake, socialization, somatic concerns
• Psychological/Cognition
• Neuropsychological testing
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ASSESSMENT AND DIAGNOSIS
• Functional
• Observations by nursing, staff
• Assessing family and social resources by social work
• Decision making capacity
• KELS by OT
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WHAT IS A KELS?
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KOHLMAN EVALUATION OF LIVING SKILLS
• Self care
• Awareness of dangerous household situations
• Identification of appropriate action for sickness/accidents
• Knowledge of emergency phone numbers
• Use of money• Source of income
• Banking forms
• Payment of bills
• Use of phone book/telephone
• Transportation
• Leisure Activities
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OUTCOMES
• Ideally, return home or to preadmission residence
• LOS longer than younger adults
• 19 days for Via Christi Unit
• Average one to two weeks
• Long LOS due to inability to secure LTC placement, securing DPOA or guardianship, Medicaid
• Premature discharge• Unsafe
• Higher level of care
• Readmission
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TREATMENT MODALITIES
• Individualized treatment plan
• With patient and family involvement
• Daily multidisciplinary staffing
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TREATMENT MODALITIES
• Maintain or improve functioning
• Wear own clothes
• Do laundry
• Kitchen activities
• Self care
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TREATMENT MODALITIES
• Occupational therapy
• Physical therapy
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TREATMENT MODALITIES
• Music therapy
• Therapy dog
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TREATMENT MODALITIES
• Milieu
• Mixture of therapy groups
• facilitate communication
• observe symptoms
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WHAT ARE CHALLENGES TO PSYCHOTHERAPY IN OLDER ADULTS?
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PSYCHOTHERAPY CHALLENGES
• Cognitive impairment
• Sensory loss
• Stigma
• Medical problems
• Lack of mobility
• Fixed income
• Different concerns than younger adults (core themes)
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TREATMENT MODALITIES
• Recreational therapies
• Arts/crafts
• Current events
• Games, Bingo
• Trivia
• Sensory
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TREATMENT MODALITIES
• Mixture of therapies
• Individual and group
• Problems common to geriatric patient
• Loss
• Adjusting to new roles
• Finding worthwhile activities
• Maintaining self esteem
• Adapting to changes in family relationships
• Increased dependency needs
• Validation therapy
• Emphasis on emotional aspect of communication rather than factual content
• Respects person’s feelings and beliefs
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TREATMENT MODALITIES
• Individual psychotherapy
• Supportive
• Cognitive/Behavioral
• Relaxation
• Sleep hygiene
• Problem-solving
• Validation
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TREATMENT MODALITIES
• Reminiscence
• Life Review
• Acknowledge past conflicts and consider their meaning in their life as a whole
• Positive memories shared in group settings to improve self-esteem and social cohesiveness
• Empirical support is sparse
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PSYCHOTHERAPY FOR DEMENTIAS
• Validation therapy
• Premise: patients with dementia use their remaining cognitive abilities to communicate with others
• Validate efforts by
• Simple speech
• Empathetic voice tone
• Reflect speech and behavior
• Mildly positive results
• Decreases in verbal and physical aggression
• Nurses have greater confidence in managing problematic behaviors
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TREATMENT MODALITIESFAMILY THERAPY
• Dementia care is often family’s first experience with seeking help from agencies or other family members
• Caregivers may be overwhelmed, exhausted, depressed, anxious
• Premature death is associated with spousal caregiver strain
• Treatment of psychiatric consequences of caregiver burden
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GOALS IN WORKING WITH FAMILIES
• Identifying precipitating stresses
• Address safety issues
• Identifying future stresses and plan strategies to manage
• Assessment of tolerance limits
• Mobilize secondary family support
• Elucidating family interactions
• Facilitate appropriate decision making
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GOALS IN WORKING WITH FAMILIES
• Help family to accept help or let go of direct care
• Provide support around grief, loss, or conflict
• Address caregiver strain
• Educate Educate Educate
• Understanding and acceptance of the illness
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FAMILY THERAPY
• Family rarely has one voice
• Close and distant family have different perceptions and expectations, often precipitating conflict
• No perfectly fair and equal division of responsibility
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FAMILY THERAPY
• Family care is an adaptive challenge
• Few incentives will make unwilling family assume care
• Few incentives will keep determined caregiver from honoring her commitment
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FAMILY THERAPY
• Caregiver’s awareness of services or need for services does not necessarily lead to their use.
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FAMILY THERAPY
• Primary caregiver at home is efficient and preferred
• Primary caregivers need breaks, respite, backup people, services to supplement their care
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THE WHO, WHAT, AND WHY
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REFERENCES
Tourigny-Rivard MF, Potoczny WM, “Acute Care Inpatient and Day Hospital Treatment”, in Sadavoy JL, Lazarus LW, Jarvik LF, Grossberg, GT, Comprehensive Review of Geriatric Psychiatry—II, 2nd edition, American Psychiatric Press, Washington, DC, 2005.
Blazer DG, Steffens DC, Textbook of Geriatric Psychiatry, 4th edition, American Psychiatric Publishing, Washington, DC, 2009