Psychotherapie im Alter

When comparing the German post-war boomer cohorts of 1955 to 1964 to the pre-war boomer cohorts of 1930 to 1939, one may observe striking parallels: From a psycho-analytic, psycho-historic perspective, the younger cohort seems to have internalized...

Home living older adults with depression who are in need of care do, as of now, not receive adequate psychotherapeutic care within the German health-care sector, while there is also a lack of corresponding research. Psychotherapists working in...

For older patients, the first period after hospital discharge is often a critical phase in which health crises and care problems occur more frequently. Patients with complex needs are at high risk of experiencing re-hospitalization during this time....

DemStepCare focused on a needs-based, person-centred and guideline-oriented optimization of outpatient care for people with dementia and their caregivers. After patient selection and enrollment by their general practitioners, case managers conducted...

The need for care in the face of increasing multimorbidity is regularly multidimensional and cannot be adequately dealt with by a single professional group in the health care system. At the same time, the progressive shortage of family doctors meets...

The following case reports describe the interventional modules of the interdisciplinary research project DAVOS (Depression in the nursing home: a cluster-randomized stepped-wedge study). The idea behind DAVOS was to implement an innovative and...

The aim of this overview article is to provide an evaluation of age-specific Innovation Fund projects. Of the total 557 funded projects, 17.1 % have an age-specific focus. An additional psychotherapy focus is present in 2.1 % of the age-specific...

Patients who suffer from chronic diseases typically experience fears about disease progression. This includes fears and concerns about the personal, familial and social consequences of disease progression. Fear or progression is an appropriate...

In geriatric psychotherapy for anxiety disorders, the use of both primarily behavioral and primarily psychodynamic elements can be a useful complement for psychotherapists of either method. The systematic integration of the elements helps to...

We present the psychodynamically orientated treatment of a patient aged 75. After passing through various therapies she now wished to address her early childhood during World War II and the post war period. She also hoped to deal with her...

Although exposure is among the most effective interventions in the treatment of anxiety disorders and post-traumatic stress disorders, its usage is comparatively low in clinical practice, especially with elderly patients. The aim of this online...

The meanwhile well empirically proven trauma-focused approaches should currently be an integral part of psychotherapy in cases of complex traumatization. Nevertheless, both previous findings and the implementation in clinical practice need...

Anxiety disorders are among the most common mental disorders in old age. Methods of exposure or confrontation are also used in psychotherapy in old age. However, there are some characteristics of older people that should be taken into account when...