Geriatric Mental Health Disaster and Emergency Preparedness

Spirituality
of African Americans/Asian
Americans, 229
Hurricane Katrina and, 229 –230
of Mexican Americans/Puerto Ricans,
229
of Native Americans, 228 –229
September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks
and, 230
Spiritual Practices Web site, 232 –233
SSHRC. See Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council
of Canada
SSRIs. See Selective serotonin reuptake
inhibitors
St. John’s wort, 225
Stanford Geriatric Education Center
(SGEC), 51, 52, 60 – 61
State plans, for disaster
defi nition differences between, 70 –71
evolution of, 68 – 69
funding for, 70
legislative language differences
between, 71
Statistics Canada, 83, 84
STEPS. See Systematic Team Evidence-
Based Problem Solving
Stevens, S. P., 125
Stroebe, M. S., 298
Subjective unit of distress scale (SUDS),
188
SUDS. See Subjective unit of distress scale
Suicide, 288, 302, 307, 309
Support structure, DREM lack of, 368
SWiFT. See Seniors Without Families
Triage
Systematic Team Evidence-Based
Problem Solving (STEPS),
252 – 253, 269
T
Tabletop exercises, as learning modality,
383
Taylor, L. K., 78
TCAs. See Tricyclic antidepressants
Team development/management, 253 – 255
Team maintenance, 253 – 255, 259
Temazepam, 22
Terrorist-based disasters
Index 421
mental health consequences of, 5
veterans on safety planning for, 335 – 338
Texas Consortium of Geriatric Education
Centers, 51, 52, 385
Texas Revised Inventory of Grief, 305
Therapy Related Symptom Checklist, 145
Thomas, C., 368
Three Ds, of geriatric mental health,
depression/delirium/dementia, 283
Tips for Preparedness for the Senior Population
, 68
Toner, John, 59, 250, 259
Tool Chest of assistive tools, for diabetics,
145
Training
for AD/dementia care, 354
for emergency preparedness, 379 – 380
for health care providers /emergency
responders, 380
importance of, 385, 388
for interdisciplinary treatment team,
253
for mindfulness, 217
program variance of, 380
sample plan for, 385 – 387
Training program
adult learning principles and, 381– 382
budget establishment for, 381
exemplar models for, 384 – 385
implementation of, 381
learning modalities for, 383 – 384
management approval for, 380 – 381
needs assessment for, 381
post-training assessment /evaluation for,
381
set up for, 380 – 384
target audience for, 382
Transfer trauma, 275, 364, 367
Treatment. See Nonpsychopharmacological
treatment; Psychopharmacological
treatment
Triazolam, 22
Tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs), 13
Trigger tapes, as learning modality, 384
U
United Postal Service (UPS), 163
Upheavals of Thought (Nussbaum), 333
UPS. See United Postal Service