Geriatric Psychiatry

 Director: Peter Rabins, M.D.

The Geriatric Psychiatry Service provides comprehensive evaluation and treatment for those persons 60 years or older who are suffering from a psychiatric disorder.

 Outpatient Services 

 Geriatric Psychiatry Clinic
The Geriatric Psychiatry clinic offers psychiatric individual and family treatment to patients age 60 years and older. Disorders treated include: affective disorders, dementia, schizophreniform disorder, personality disorders, anxiety disorders and adjustment disorders.

• The clinic is located in Meyer 144 
• Patients are evaluated on Tuesdays 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm 
• The clinic offers psychiatric treatment to patients following discharge from a hospital and also evaluates new patients for continued follow-up or further referral.

Contact C. Knight @ 410-955-5147 for further information.

 PATCH Program (Psychogeriatric Assessment and Treatment in City Housing)
Mobile treatment to elderly in public housing; Provides treatment to elderly people with serious and persistent mental illness that live in city housing. Services include: in-home psychiatric assessment and treatment; improvement and coordination of community service; and education to the caregivers about the special needs of the elderly.

Contact B. Rye, R.N. @ 410-955-6739 or M. Min, RN @ 410-550-0925 for further information.

 Adult Developmentally Disabled Psychiatric Clinic
Please contact T. Baldwin @ 410-955-6678 for further information.

Day/Partial Hospitalization

 Geriatric Partial Hospitalization Program
(Geriatric Psychiatry Day Hospital)
Directed by Dr. Susan Lehmann, this eight patient program provides intensive treatment and management to all persons age 60 or older who are suffering from a psychiatric disorder. These disorders include: major depression, manic-depressive illness, anxiety disorders, paranoid disorders, schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorders and early dementia with mood and/or behavioral complications. Patients participate in a comprehensive treatment program enables patients to remain independent in the community while receiving active psychiatric treatment.

• The Day Hospital is located on Meyer 6
• Hours of operation are from 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., Monday through Friday.
• The Day Hospital offers intensive multidisciplinary psychiatric treatment as a transition from inpatient hospitalization or as an alternative to inpatient hospitalization

Contact Patt Lofft, RN @ 410-955-8069 or Connie Monroe @ 410-614-3916 for further information

Inaptient

 Geriatric Psychiatry Unit
This nine bed unit, located on Meyer 6, specializes in the treatment of medically complicated elderly patients with severe psychiatric affective and neuropsychiatric disorders. Patients have typically failed other inpatient and outpatient treatment modalities and/or have complicating medical conditions that other psychiatric programs can not manage.

Contact J. Bartynski @ 410-955-5104 for further information.

Current Research Projects:

• Effectiveness of nurse-based outreach to the elderly in public housing
• Visual hallucinations (Charles Bonnet syndrome)
• Late-life mania
• Measuring quality of life in Alzheimer disease and other dementias
• Improving recognition and treatment of late-life depression

For More Information/To Make an Appointment:

• For the Geriatric Clinic please contact C. Knight @ 410-955-5147.
• For the Geriatric Day Hospital, please contact Patt Lofft, RN @ 410-955-8069 or Connie Monroe @ 410-614-3916.
• For the PATCH Program, please contact B. Rye, RN @ 410-955-6739 or M. Min, RN @ 410-550-0925.
• For the Geriatric Inpatient Psychiatry Unit, please contact J. Bartynski @ 410-955-5104.