Guidelines

The following is a list of articles, tools and guidelines, grouped by areas of interest, submitted by members.  If you have an article, tool or guideline that would be of interest to members please send it to info@cagp.ca.

LTC Guidelines

• National Guidelines for Seniors' Mental Health - The Assessment and Treatment of Mental Health Issues in Long Term Care Homes  
• Alexopoulos GS, Jeste DV, Chung H, Carpenter D, Ross R, and Docherty JP. (2001). The expert consensus guideline series:  Treatment of dementia and its behavioural disturbances.  Postgrad Med Special Report.  (January): 1-109.
• AGS/AAGP. (2003). Consensus Statement on Improving the Quality of Mental Health Care in U.S. Nursing Homes: Management of Depression and Behavioural Symptoms Associated with Dementia. J Am Geriatr Soc. 51(9): 1287-98.
• American Medical Directors Association (AMDA). Clinical Practice Guidelines in the Long Term Care Setting.
  
• Doody RS, Stevens JC, Beck C, Dubinsky RM, Kaye JA, Gwyther L, Mohs RC, Thal LJ, Whitehouse PJ, DeKosky ST, and Cummings JL. (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, and Remington R. (2008). Evidence-based protocol: Wandering. The University of Iowa Gerontological Nursing Interventions Research Centre: Researh Dissemination Core. 
• Gerdner L. (Revised 2011). Evidence-based protocol: Individualized music. World J Psychiatr. 2(2): 26-32.
• McGonigal-Kenney ML, and 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. 
• Thiru-Chelvam B, (2004). Bathing persons with dementia. The University of Iowa Gerontological Nursing Interventions Research Centre: Researh Dissemination Core. 37.
• Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (Revised 2010). Screening for delirium, dementia and depression in older adults 
• Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (Revised 2010).  Caregiving strategies for older adults with delirium, dementia and depression 

Delirium Guidelines

• UK National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence. (2010) Delirium: Diagnosis, prevention and management.
• 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): 119-41.
• Mayo-Smith et al. (2004). Management of alcohol withdrawal delirium. Arch Intern Med. 164(13): 1405-12.
• Sendelbach s and Guthrie PF. (2009). Research-Based Protocol: Acute confusion/delirium. The University of Iowa Gerontological Nursing Interventions Research Centre: Researh Dissemination Core. 66.
• Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (Revised 2010). Screening for delirium, dementia and depression in older adults 
• Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (Revised 2010).  Caregiving strategies for older adults with delirium, dementia and depression 

Depression Guidelines

• Alexopoulos GS, Katz IR, Reynolds CF, Carpenter D, and Docherty JP.  (2001). The expert consensus guideline series:  Pharmacotherapy of Depressive Disorders in Older Patients.  Postgrad Med Special Report.  (October): 1-86.
• Baldwin RC, Chiu E, Katona C, and Graham N. (2002).  Guidelines on Depression in Older People:  Practising the Evidence.  Martin Dunitz Ltd, London.
• Kurlowicz LH. (1997).  Nursing protocol standard of practice protocol: Depression in elderly patients. Geriatric Nursing. 18(5): 192-200.
• Peck S. (2005). Clinical guideline for the care and treatment of older people with depression in a general hospital setting. Isle of Wright Healthcare.
• Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (Revised 2010). Screening for delirium, dementia and depression in older adults 
• Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (Revised 2010).  Caregiving strategies for older adults with delirium, dementia and depression 
• Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (2004). Australian and New Zealand clinical practice guidelines for the treatment of depression 
• American Medical Directors Association (AMDA). (2011). Depression in the long-term care setting. Columbia (MD). 39

Suicide Guidelines

• Gaynes BN, West SL, Ford CA, Frame P, Klein J, and Lohr KN. (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): 822-37.
• Holkup PA. (2002). Evidence-based protocol – Elderly suicide: Secondary prevention. The University of Iowa Gerontological Nursing Interventions Research Centre: Research Dissemination Core. 
• National Institute for Clinical Excellence. (2004). Self-harm: The short-term physical and psychological management and secondary prevention of self-harm in primary and secondary care 
• New Zealand Guidelines Group & Ministry of Health (2003). The assessment and management of people at risk of suicide 
• 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: 868-84.