The treatment and evaluation of senior adults requires specialized skills and careful attention to treating emotional disorders within the context of co-existing medical illness.

Clinical tracks at various SBBHN sites are designed to meet the unique needs of older adults who suffer from all psychiatric disorders including:

• Anxiety
• Depression
• Dementia
• Pseudodementia
• Bipolar disorder
• Schizophrenia
• Organic brain syndromes
• Paranoids reactions
• Alzheimer's disease

Treatment is directed by board-certified psychiatrists specializing in geriatrics and is delivered by treatment teams which include geropsychiatric nurses, allied clinical therapists, licensed clinical social workers and other professionals who specialize in the needs of the geropsychiatric client.