Trends in Geriatric Psychiatry
Specialized Geriatric Psychiatry Units:
Do They Make a Difference?
Richard Callaway, MD

June 2009

FAST FACTS
• The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that the number of elderly Americans will double over the next 20 years from 35 million (12% of the U.S. population) to 70 million (20% of the U.S. population).

• Rates of mental illness related to illicit substance abuse, misuse of prescription pharmaceuticals and sedentary lifestyle are expected to be higher in future populations of elderly Americans than in previous generations.

• Academic societies and the clinical community at large have long been concerned about the lack of preparedness of the healthcare workforce when it comes to handling the complex medical and mental health care needs of the aging “baby boomer” generation.

• Select hospitals and long-term care facilities across New England are demonstrating their commitment to improving medical and mental health care for the elderly with psychiatric diagnoses.

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Dying To Be Tan
A Local Woman’s Battle with Skin Cancer
Liz Tufts

FAST FACTS
• Of the nearly 30 million people who tan indoors in the United States
every year, 2.3 million are teens.

• Seventy-one percent of tanning salon patrons are females between the
ages of 16 and 29.

• While melanoma accounts for only three percent of skin cancer cases,
it causes more than 75% of skin cancer deaths.

• One in 41 men and one in 61 women will develop melanoma in their lifetime.

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HITECH Act Promises EMR Funding to Clinicians with “Meaningful Use”
George Catuogno

Visas for Foreign Physicians
Joseph P. Curran and Thao Pho-Gonzalez

A Day in the Life
Seniority Social and Adult Day Care, Inc.
Joan Long

FDA Watch June 2009
Rich Hoeckh, RPh

Grand Rounds: June 2009

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