Dementia-Related Psychosis: Strategies to Address Barriers to Care Across Settings

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Submitted by Minnesota North... on Aug 23, 2021 - 9:17am CDT

Resource Type: 
Unpublished Document

This white paper by a Gerontological Society of America clinical workgroup summarizes the evidence related to dementia-related psychosis and provides strategies to address barriers to care across a variety of settings. Recommendations for how to improve early detection and diagnosis, facilitate care, improve approaches to treatment/guideline-based care and transitions of care, reducting setting-specific challenges, supporting clinicians, and advocacy and payer engagement are discussed.

Author(s): 
Gary W. Small
Gustavo Alva
Alexis Eastman
Michael B. First
Gary Epstein-Lubow
George T. Grossberg
Daniel Press
Susan Scanland
Chad Worz
Karen Tracy
Judit Illes
Collections: 
Age-Friendly Care and Education Collection
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