Guidelines

LTC Guidelines

• National Guidelines for Seniors' Mental Health - The Assessment and Treatment of Mental Health Issues in Long Term Care Homes CCSMH National LTC Guideline May 2006.pdf
  
  
• Alexopoulos, G.S., Jeste, D. V., Chung, H., Carpenter, D., Ross, R., & Docherty, J. P. (2001). The expert consensus guideline series:  Treatment of dementia and its behavioural disturbances.  Postgrad Med Special Report.  (January): 1-109, Expert Knowledge Systems, LLC, McGraw-Hill Healthcare Information Programs, Minneapolis, U.S.
  
  
• AGS/AAGP. Consensus Statement on Improving the Quality of Mental Health Care in U.S. Nursing Homes: Management of Depression and Behavioural Symptoms Associated with Dementia; AGS & AAGP; JAGS 2003
  
  
• American Medical Directors Association (AMDA). Depression Clinical Practice Guideline. AMDA 2003; www.amda.ca
  
  
• Doody, R. S., Stevens, J. C., Beck, C., Dubinsky, R. M., Kaye, J. A., Gwyther, L., Mohs, R. C., Thal, L. J., Whitehouse, P. J., DeKosky, S. T., & Cummings, J. L (2001). Practice parameter: management of dementia (an evidence-based review). Report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology. Neurology, 56(9),1154-66.
  
  
• Futrell M, Melillo KD (2002). Evidence-based protocol: Wandering. The University of Iowa Gerontological Nursing Interventions Research Centre: Researh Dissemination Core. Iowa City, Iowa. Summary Available: http://www.guideline.gov/summary/summary.aspx?doc_id=3250&nbr=002476&string=002476
  
  
• Gerdner L (2001). Evidence-based protocol: Individualized music. The University of Iowa Gerontological Nursing Interventions Research Centre: Researh Dissemination Core. Iowa City, Iowa. Summary Available: http://www.guideline.gov/summary/summary.aspx?doc_id=3073&nbr=002299&string=002299
  
  
• McGonigal-Kenney ML, & Schutte DL (2004). Non-pharmacologic management of agitated behaviors in persons with Alzheimer disease and other chronic dementing conditions. The University of Iowa Gerontological Nursing Interventions Research Centre: Researh Dissemination Core. Iowa City, Iowa. Summary Available: http://www.guideline.gov/summary/summary.aspx?doc_id=6221&nbr=003992&string=003992
  
  
• Thiru-Chelvam B (2004). Bathing persons with dementia. The University of Iowa Gerontological Nursing Interventions Research Centre: Researh Dissemination Core. Iowa City, Iowa. Summary Available: http://www.guideline.gov/summary/summary.aspx?doc_id=6220&nbr=003991&string=003991
  
  
• Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (2003). Screening for delirium, dementia and depression in older adults [On-line].  Available: http://www.rnao.org/bestpractices/completed_guidelines/BPG_Guide_C3_ddd.asp
  
  
• Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (2004).  Caregiving strategies for older adults with delirium, dementia and depression [On-line]. Available: http://www.rnao.org/bestpractices/completed_guidelines/BPG_Guide_C4_caregiving_elders_ddd.asp
  
  

Delirium Guidelines

• National Guidelines for Seniors' Mental Health - The Assessment and Treatment of Delirium CCSMH National LTC Guideline May 2006.pdf
  
  
• American Psychiatric Association (1999). Practice guideline for the treatment of patients with delirium [On-line]. Available: http://www.psych.org/psych_pract/treatg/pg/Practice%20Guidelines8904/Delirium.pdf
  
  
• British Geriatrics Society (1999-2000). Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of delirium in the elderly [On-line].  Available: http://www.bgs.org.uk/Word%20Downloads/delirium.doc
  
  
• Jacobi et al. (2002). Clinical practice guidelines for the sustained use of sedatives and analgesics in the critically ill adult. Critical Care Medicine, 30(1), 119-141.
  
  
• Mayo-Smith et al. (2004). Management of alcohol withdrawal delirium. Archives of Internal Medicine, 164, 1405-2068.
  
  
• Rapp, C. G., & Iowa Veterans Affairs Nursing Research Consortium (1998). Research-Based Protocol: Acute confusion/delirium. The University of Iowa Gerontological Nursing Interventions Research Centre: Researh Dissemination Core. Iowa City, Iowa.
  
  
• Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (2003). Screening for delirium, dementia and depression in older adults [On-line].  Available: http://www.rnao.org/bestpractices/completed_guidelines/BPG_Guide_C3_ddd.asp
  
  
• Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (2004).  Caregiving strategies for older adults with delirium, dementia and depression [On-line]. Available: http://www.rnao.org/bestpractices/completed_guidelines/BPG_Guide_C4_caregiving_elders_ddd.asp
  
  

Depression Guidelines

• National Guidelines for Seniors' Mental Health - The Assessment and Treatment of Depression CCSMH National LTC Guideline May 2006.pdf
  
  
• Alexopoulos, G.S., Katz, I.R., Reynolds, C.F., Carpenter, D., & Docherty, J.P.  (2001). The expert consensus guideline series:  Pharmacotherapy of Depressive Disorders in Older Patients.  Postgrad Med Special Report.  (October): 1-86, Expert Knowledge Systems, LLC, McGraw-Hill Healthcare Information Programs, Minneapolis, U.S.
  
  
• Baldwin,R.C., Chiu, E., Katona, C., & Graham, N. (2002).  Guidelines on Depression in Older People:  Practising the Evidence.  Martin Dunitz Ltd, London.
  
  
• Kurlowicz, L. H. (1997).  Nursing protocol standard of practice protocol: Depression in elderly patients. Geriatric Nursing, 18(5), 192-200.
  
  
• Peck, S. (2003). Clinical guideline for the care and treatment of older people with depression in a general hospital setting.  Isle of Wight Healthcare [On-line]. Available: http://www.iow.nhs.uk/Department/mental/older/pdfs/Depression%20Guideline.pdf
  
  
• Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (2003). Screening for delirium, dementia and depression in older adults [On-line].  Available: http://www.rnao.org/bestpractices/completed_guidelines/BPG_Guide_C3_ddd.asp
  
  
• Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (2004).  Caregiving strategies for older adults with delirium, dementia and depression [On-line]. Available: http://www.rnao.org/bestpractices/completed_guidelines/BPG_Guide_C4_caregiving_elders_ddd.asp
  
  
• Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (2004). Australian and New Zealand clinical practice guidelines for the treatment of depression [On-line]. Available: http://www.ranzcp.org/pdffiles/cpgs/Depression%20Clinican%20Full.pdf
  
  

Suicide Guidelines

• National Guidelines for Seniors' Mental Health - The Assessment of Suicide Risk and Prevention of The Assessment of Suicide Risk and Prevention of Suicide CCSMH National LTC Guideline May 2006.pdf
  
  
• American Psychiatric Association. (APA) (2004). Practice guideline for the assessment and treatment of patients with suicidal behaviors [On-line]. Available: http://www.psych.org/psych_pract/treatg/pg/pg_suicidalbehaviors.pdf
  
  
• Gaynes, B. N., West, S. L., Ford, C. A., Frame, P., Klein, J., & Lohr, K. N. (2004). Screening for suicide risk in adults: A summary of the evidence for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Annals of Internal Medicine, 140 (10), 822-837.
  
  
• Holkup, P. A. (2002). Evidence-based protocol – Elderly suicide: Secondary prevention. The University of Iowa Gerontological Nursing Interventions Research Centre: Researh Dissemination Core. Iowa City, Iowa.
  
  
• National Institute for Clinical Excellence. (NICE) (2004). Self-harm: The short-term physical and psychological management and secondary prevention of self-harm in primary and secondary care [On-line]. Available: http://www.nice.org.uk/page.aspx?o=213665
  
  
• New Zealand Guidelines Group & Ministry of Health (2003). The assessment and management of people at risk of suicide [On-line]. Available: http://www.nzgg.org.nz/index.cfm?fuseaction=fuseaction_10&fusesubaction=docs&documentID=22&guideline_displaymode=category
  
  
• Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists Clinical Practice Guidelines Team for Deliberate Self-Harm (2004).  Australian and New Zealand clinical practice guidelines for the management of adult deliberate self-harm. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 38, 868 – 884.
  
  
• Royal College of Psychiatrists (2003). Assessment following self-harm in adults [On-line]. Available: http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/publications/cr/council/cr122.pdf