The Clinician's Guide to Geriatric Forensic Evaluations

ISBN-13: 9780128150344 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 278 str.

Karen Reimers

Spis treści

1. Introduction to geriatric forensic evaluations2. Ethical and legal issues3. Evaluation of cognitive impairment4. Evaluation of decision-making capacity and guardianship5. Evaluation of elder abuse and financial exploitation 6. Geriatric forensic report writing and testimony7. Afterword

Appendix1: SAMPLE PSYCHIATRIC REPORT2: Sample Report: Competency to Stand Trial (CST)3: Clinician's Guide to the Geriatric Forensic Interview4: Montreal Cognitive Assessment

O autorze

Karen Reimers, MD, FRCPC, is board certified in psychiatry in the United States and Canada. She is an adjunct assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Reimers is active in clinical, teaching, and consulting roles and is an expert witness for contested wills and trusts, cognitive impairment, and undue influence. She is a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada. Her interest in geriatric forensic evaluations arose out of her clinical practice with elderly patients, after having been involved in decisions about capacity to consent to treatment, driving capacity, guardianship, and other medicolegal questions.