At Westmead Hospital, beds in the mother and baby, medical psychiatry, and older persons mental health units would be temporarily closed, while mental health beds in the emergency department would ...

In recent years, Dutch psychiatrists have seen a steep upswing in requests for medical assistance in dying, or MAID, on psychiatric grounds, rising from an average of about 30 per year from 2012 ...

But many doctors don’t learn enough about these differences in medical schools, the majority of which don’t report requiring a geriatric rotation. This also means a missed opportunity for ...

according to a study published in The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. The PROTECT program, short for “Providing Options to Elderly Clients Together,” is a simplified behavioral ...

In late 2022, Erin, a 43-year-old from Pennsylvania, agreed to spend six weeks in a psychiatric ward, getting intensive treatment for an illness she knew she didn’t have. That decision was a ...