General Description and Overview

There are approximately 200,000 seniors in our catchment area. Our program offers inpatient, outpatient, outreach consultation in a wide variety of clinical settings including the long term care centre. The program was designed to meet the needs of older adults with :

• behavioural and mental health issues associated with cognitive impairment
• late onset psychiatric illness
• longstanding psychiatric illness complicated by age related dysfunction
• medical illness complicated by associated with psychiatric and/or behavioural dysfunction
• substance abuse disorders
• complex needs of the frail elderly
• family and caregiver burden

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Components of the program

• Inpatient services
• 20 beds on the Geriatric Behavioural Unit
• Beds for the elderly on the Acute Inpatient Service
• Inpatient/Outpatient services in Hamilton, Niagara, Halton, Brant County and Haldimand

Our model embraces the concept of team based collaborative care, working in a shared care model with primary care providers who provide evidence-based psychiatric care. It is part of McMaster University teaching hospital committed to providing evidence based teaching learners from a variety of backgrounds; provide clinical care in an evaluative framework and to actively participate in university research initiatives.

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Specialty Services or Clinics

• HOAP
• Geriatric Outreach
• Etc

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Active Faculty

• Dr. Karen Saperson
• Dr. Tracy Cheng
• Dr. Jonathan Crowson
• Dr. Maxine Lewis
• Dr. David Lam
• Dr. Sunny Luthra
• Dr. Carrie McAiney (Research)

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Contact us

• For Clinical Services: Mary White, Administrative Assistant , 905-522-1155, ext 36782
• For General Inquiries: Mary White, Administrative Assistant , 905-522-1155, ext 36782