Psychogeriatrics--an interdisciplinary specialty.

An integrated model for defining the scope of psychogeriatrics: the five Cs.

International Psychogeriatrics and the International Psychogeriatric Association: a successful marriage turns silver.

Special issue on training in psychogeriatrics.

The need to train more health workers, and particularly mental health workers, in the care of older adults, has been highlighted by a variety of disciplines including psychiatry (Jeste et al., 1999), psychology (Knight et al., 1995), social work (Rosen et al., 2002) and nursing (Hirst et al., 1996). This rise in attention paid to geriatric health care is partly driven by demographics. Over the ...

Observations of a traveling fellow: consultation-liaison psychiatry versus joint units for delirium management.

normative data for the Brazilian population. Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, 70, 960–966. Miotto, E. C., Sato, J., Lucia, M. C. S., Camargo, C. H. P. and Scaff, M. (2010). Development of an adapted version of the Boston Naming Test for Portuguese speakers. Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria, 32, 279–282. Nielsen, T. R., Vogel, A. and Waldemar, G. (2012). Comparison of performance on three neurops...

Top cited papers in International Psychogeriatrics: 6c. Tracking cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease using the Mini-mental State Examination: a meta-analysis ("mini" is not necessarily trivial!).

It was well beyond my expectations when I heard from Professor Ames that our meta-analysis paper (Han et al., 2000) was among the top-cited papers in International Psychogeriatrics. As an expression of my gratitude to the editor for the invitation and to the audience of this paper, I would like to offer this informal discussion on the background of the paper and extend a few ideas that were not...