Beyond 65: Navigating Geriatric Mental Health Assessment
Aug 29, 2025•37 min
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Episode description
This episode explores the holistic approach to geropsychiatric nursing assessment, highlighting how to distinguish between normal aging processes and common mental health challenges in older adults. We’ll review the major domains of assessment—biophysical, psychological, and social—while examining effective data collection techniques, key physiological changes, guiding principles for assessment, and the importance of suicide risk evaluation in geriatric care.
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