The Carlat Geriatric Psychiatry Fact Book

Everything you need to help your older adult patients from the unbiased clinical experts who publish The Carlat Geriatric Psychiatry Report.

This is your new go-to guide for geriatric psychiatry-clear, concise, and packed with practical tools to help you deliver exceptional mental health care to older adults.

What's inside:

• Essential Clinical Knowledge at Your Fingertips: High-yield, evidence-based information designed for busy clinicians working with older adults.
• Easy Access to Critical Topics: Covers dementia, depression, delirium, anxiety, psychosis, agitation, insomnia, psychopharmacology, psychotherapy, legal issues, and more. All organized for quick reference.
• Real-World Application: Practical tips, case vignettes, and tables help you immediately apply knowledge in clinical settings.
• Age-Specific Guidance: Contains insights on diagnosis and management nuances unique to older adult populations.
• Medication Safety and Dosing in Older People: Up-to-date recommendations on psychotropics, including dosing, potential drug interactions, and side effect mitigation.
• Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia: Learn strategies for recognizing and managing agitation, psychosis, depression, and apathy in people with neurocognitive disorders.

A Note from the Author

As our population ages, the need for specialized expertise in geriatric psychiatry has never been greater. Yet, we face a critical shortage of practitioners equipped with the necessary skills and knowledge in this field. The Carlat Geriatric Psychiatry Fact Book addresses this gap by offering evidence-based, high-yield clinical insights accessible at the point of care. My goal is to empower a broad range of healthcare professionals with the tools to provide competent, compassionate care to older adults. At some point, most older adults will require some form of community support, thus, to supplement this text, I've also compiled valuable resources for clinical practice at, available at the end of this book.

Finally, the process of writing this book has been a labor of love. The opportunity to contribute to a resource that can enhance patient care is profoundly fulfilling. Above all, I remain continually inspired by the resilience, dignity, and wisdom of the older adults we serve, whose experiences provide enduring lessons in humanity and compassion. Lessons that I hope will inspire your practice as they have mine.