DEPRESSION IN OLDER ADULTS- TREATMENT GUIDELINES (2 CE)

Course overview

Course provides practitioners with strategies for providing effective and appropriate care to older adults with depression. Course includes how to screen for, assess and diagnose depression, select an appropriate treatment, deliver care, and evaluate outcomes. It also describes how practitioners can participate in implementing evidence-based practices (EBPs). Learning Objectives: 1. Explain clinical reminders for working with older adults. 2. Review screening, assessing and diagnosing depression in older adults. 3. Describe characteristics of evidence based practices and the application of these practices to the treatment of depression in older adults.