JAMDA
Volume 7, Issue 9 , Pages 568-580 , November 2006

Psychotherapy in Long-Term Care: A Review

  • Ashok J. Bharucha, MD

      Affiliations

    • Advanced Center in Interventions and Services Research for Late-Life Mood Disorders and the John A. Hartford Center of Excellence in Geriatric Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to Ashok J. Bharucha, MD, 502 Iroquois Building, 3600 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213.
    • ,
  • Mary Amanda Dew, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Advanced Center in Interventions and Services Research for Late-Life Mood Disorders and the John A. Hartford Center of Excellence in Geriatric Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA
    • ,
  • Mark D. Miller, MD

      Affiliations

    • Advanced Center in Interventions and Services Research for Late-Life Mood Disorders and the John A. Hartford Center of Excellence in Geriatric Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA
    • ,
  • Soo Borson, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA.
    • ,
  • Charles Reynolds III, MD

      Affiliations

    • Advanced Center in Interventions and Services Research for Late-Life Mood Disorders and the John A. Hartford Center of Excellence in Geriatric Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA

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 Supported by National Institute on Aging 1K23 AG023026, P30 MH071944, the John A. Hartford Foundations, and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Endowment for Geriatric Psychiatry.

PII: S1525-8610(06)00406-3

doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2006.08.003

JAMDA
Volume 7, Issue 9 , Pages 568-580 , November 2006

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