How do we balance autonomy and safety in older adults? We examine the fine line between necessary intervention and coercion and how shared decision making helps preserve dignity and trust in care.

This article reviews safe psychotropic use in older patients with heart, lung, kidney, or liver disease, helping you avoid dangerous interactions and dosing pitfalls.

When dementia patients suddenly worsen, is it delirium or disease progression? Learn the key behavioral and motor clues that can help you spot delirium superimposed on dementia earlier.

A new plasma test, eMTBR-tau243, could revolutionize Alzheimer’s diagnosis by detecting tau tangles with precision and offering a faster, less invasive window into disease progression.

Palliative psychiatry is an emerging and thought-provoking approach that challenges us to rethink how we care for individuals with severe and persistent mental illness.

Large-scale real-world data analysis reveals no single antidepressant consistently outperforms others across all outcomes. However, fluvoxamine and venlafaxine showed higher rates of discontinuation, augmentation needs, and psychiatric hospitalization in older adults.

Research findings favor augmentation over switching strategies in treatment-resistant depression. Aripiprazole augmentation showed superior efficacy and lower fall rates compared to other approaches in older adults.