Southeastern Geriatric Healthcare Group

Geriatric Psychiatry

Southeastern Geriatric Healthcare Group is a Geriatric Psychiatry practice in Atlanta, GA with healthcare providers who have special training and skill in studying and addressing mental illness in older adults. Geriatric Psychiatrists at Southeastern Geriatric Healthcare Group perform mental health assessments, therapies, diet and lifestyle recommendations, and medication prescription. Geriatric Psychiatry is a psychiatry subspecialty focused on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of emotional and mental disorders in seniors. Significant diseases and conditions treated at Geriatric Psychiatry practices include depression, anxiety, alienation, agitation, psychosis, dementia, and Alzheimer's Disease. Medical tests, procedures and therapies provided by Geriatric Psychiatry practices include mental health assessments, psychological therapy protocols, and medication prescriptions.

Geriatric Psychiatry is a subspecialty with psychiatric expertise in prevention, evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of mental and emotional disorders in the elderly, and improvement of psychiatric care for healthy and ill elderly patients.