title: [IMPACT OF AGING IN PSYCHIATRY].
abstract: The changes associated with aging influence the clinical presentation and treatment approach of psychiatric illness. Several psychiatric disorders are common in old age as depression or set of diseases with cognitive impairment requiring geriatric knowledge. In many countries psychiatry of the elderly are called psychogeriatric. Regardless of the name objective of this article is to convey that the psychiatrist who treats patients over 65 years with multiple disorders, with frailty social problems and polypharmacy should have some tools in addition to the thorough understanding of psychiatric illness itself. Teamwork, meet physiological changes of aging and how these affect the response to drugs, atypical presentation of illness and keep in mind the importance of psychosocial and environmental issues both in presentation and in addressing and monitoring of disease.
authors.forename: Romina
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rubin
authors.forename: Ricardo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jauregui
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging; D015897:Comorbidity; D016330:Frail Elderly; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011570:Psychiatry