TO PREPARE
Please read week 7 presentation SOAP note (file attached), and please respond to the following questions in two different discussions , ½ to 1 page each with at least 2 peer-reviewed references each.
Discussion Questions:
1. What are the commonly seen differences in the presentation of anxiety disorder symptoms in older adults and younger patients?
2. As clinicians who are prescribing psychotropic medications to older adults’ persons, what are the recommended considerations?
THE ASSIGNMENT
Please read week 9 presentation SOAP note (file attached), and please respond to the following questions in two different discussions , ½ to 1 page each with at least 2 peer-reviewed references each.
1. What are the commonly seen differences in the presentation of anxiety disorder symptoms in older adults and younger patients?
2. As clinicians who are prescribing psychotropic medications to older adults’ persons, what are the recommended considerations?
LEARNING RESOURCES
Required Readings
• Stern, T. A., Fava, M., Wilens, T. E., & Rosenbaum, J. F. (2016). Massachusetts General Hospital psychopharmacology and neurotherapeutics. Elsevier.
o Chapter 14, “Dementia” (pp. 146–147 only)
• Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. (n.d.). Social Determinates of Health.Links to an external site. Healthy People 2030. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. https://health.gov/healthypeople/priority-areas/social-determinants-health
• Stahl, S. M. (2021a). Stahl’s essential psychopharmacology: Neuroscientific basis and practical applications (5th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
o Chapter 12, “Dementia: Causes, Symptomatic Treatments, and the Neurotransmitter Network Acetylcholine”
Required Media:
• American Geriatrics Society 2019 Beers Criteria Update Expert Panel. (2019). American Geriatrics Society 2019 updated AGS Beers Criteria for potentially inappropriate medication use in older adultsLinks to an external site.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 67(4), 674–694. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.15767
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• Chisolm , M. S., & Payne, J. L. (2016). Management of psychotropic drugs during pregnancyLinks to an external site.. British Medical Journal, 352. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.h5918
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