PPT-Personality disorders in Older Adults

Tier 3 What is Personality The word Personality refers to the collection of characteristics or traits that we have developed as we have grown up and which make each of us an individual These include the ways that we. Outreach & Prevention. Jody Bechtold, LCSW, NCGC-II, BACC. Why Focus on . Older Adults?. Source: A Profile of Older Americans: 2003, Administration on Aging, HHS. Changing Demographics: . More . Elderly. Mark Kimsey, M.D.. March 8, 2014. Objectives. Understanding personality disorders using criteria from DSM-5.. Learn approaches for separating personality disorders from other major illnesses.. Review non-pharmacologic treatment approaches.. IN ALAMEDA COUNTY. . March 2016. DEMOGRAPHICS &. SOCIAL DETERMINANTS . OF HEALTH. Age Distribution of Population . in Alameda County. Source: US Census Bureau, 1980 and 2010. Age Pyramid, 1980. UK Physical Activity Guidelines. UK-wide . Global evidence of the health benefits . Life course . Recommended amount for health benefit. Why do we need guidelines for older adults?. Physical . activity levels are . What is it? . An assessment of the risks . climate change poses to human health in the United . States . An Interagency product of the US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP). Part of the ongoing National Climate Assessment (NCA) process. Marion Weeks. Jenks High School. Dissociative Disorders. Characterized by disturbances or changes in memory, consciousness, or identity due to psychological factors. . Some . believe dissociative disorders are an attempt to escape from a part of the self that one fears; allows them to reduce anxiety by forgetting stressful events or aspects of their personality. What is loneliness like for older adults?. Being Alone. Loneliness defined. Loneliness is the subjective feeling of being alone. It is “the distress that results from discrepancies between ideal and perceived social relationships.” . INTRODUCTION. Older adults comprise a major portion of the population. For dentistry, older adults are retaining more teeth which means providing treatment for them is a separate entity. A knowledge about the aging changes in the . inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning. . usually without depression or delusions.. Robert Lee Yates: . Spokane Skid Row Killer. Personality Disorders. Broken down into Clusters:. People with personality disorders have . formed peculiar and unpleasant personality patterns. . For example, some are very secretive, some very self-centered and selfish, some suspicious all the time. . DSM-IV lists 10 separate personality disorders, with an average prevalence of 1-2%. Three clusters: anxious-fearful, odd-eccentric, and dramatic-impulsive. Concern:. . Categorical vs. Dimensional (DSM-V)?. EXHIBIT 1. Note: Differences between US and all other surveyed countries except AUS were statistically significant at the p < 0.05 level.. Data: Commonwealth Fund 2021 International Health Policy Survey of Older Adults.. Tier 3. Psychosis. What is psychosis?. ‘Some loss of contact with reality’. This might involve hallucinations or delusions’ (NHS). Hallucinations – hearing voices/ seeing things/ sensation that someone is touching them/ experiencing smells that are not there. Tier 2 . Eating disorder . An eating disorder is when the person has an unhealthy attitude to food which can over their life and make them ill.. It can involve eating too much or too little, and/ or becoming obsessed with their body and shape.