[Psychiatric pharmacotherapy of older individuals with severe mental illness].

CONCLUSIONS: Drug treatment of older persons with SMI should be part of an overall treatment plan that also has to include social and psychotherapeutic components that address the specific problems of this population. Most importantly, psychiatric pharmacotherapy should consider these risks and the treatment should be tailored to a patient's individual risk profile. Due to a general lack of evidence in this special population, treatment strategies of standard guidelines should be adjusted with special consideration to physiological changes of age. PMID: 30302537 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie - Category: Geriatrics Authors: Tags: Z Gerontol Geriatr Source Type: research