Primary Care Mental Health in Older People

Part I

1              Aims and concept of the Companion to Primary Care Mental Health in Older People

2              Epidemiology and the scale of the problem

3              Wider determinants of health

Part II

4              Frailty

5              Comorbidity and multimorbidity including stepped care and skill mix

Part III

6              History taking and assessment

7              Neurocognitive assessment

8              Promoting dignity in the care of older adults

Part IV

9              Pharmacological interventions in older adults

10           Psychological interventions in older adults

11           Exercise for older adults with mental health problems

12           Advocating better mental health care for older adults

Part V

13           Anxiety disorder in older adults

14           Bereavement in older adults

15           Bodily distress syndrome (BDS), bodily stress syndrome and health anxiety in older

Dr Carlos A. de Mendonça Lima obtained his medical degree at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and achieved its equivalence in Portugal and in Switzerland. He specialized in Psychiatry at the Université de Franche-Comté, France. He subsequently completed a Master degree in Epidemiology and Statistics and another one in Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacokinetics at the University of Nancy I, France. He is Doctor in Sciences of Life and Health (PhD) by the Université de Franche-Comté, France. He was a consultant of the Mental Health Division of the World Health Organization from 1992 to 1998. He helped to create the WHO Collaborating Centre for Psychiatry of the Elderly in 1996 and he was its director from 1998 to 2004. He was president of the European Association of Geriatric Psychiatry between 2003 and 2004 and he was Member of the Board of Directors of the International Psychogeriatric Association from 2004 to 2012. He was Vice-Chair of the European Psychiatric Association Section of Old Age Psychiatry from 2004 until 2010 when he was elected its Chair, a position he held until 2014; until today he is its Councilor. In 1999 he became member of the board of the World Psychiatric Association Section of Old Age Psychiatry and in 2008 he assumed its secretary, position that he still stands today. He assumed clinical, teaching and research positions in 4 different countries (Brazil, French, Portugal and Switzerland) and today he has the charge of the Unity of Old Age Psychiatry at the Centre Les Toises, Lausanne. He also has intense clinical activity together with Primary Care Doctors of a rural area in Canton of Vaud, Switzerland.