This book empowers health care professionals to identify and diagnose anxiety and depression in older adult patients and help them find relief, stay independent, and lower their risk of suicide. Material covers the unique factors facing older adults, including cognitive impairment, functional independence, and living near the end of life.

"Late-Life Depression and Anxiety empowers health care professionals to identify and diagnose anxiety and depression in older adult patients and help them find relief, stay independent, and lower their risk of suicide. Readers will gain up-to-date knowledge of the scope and seriousness of depression, anxiety, and suicide in older adults, alongside a system of proven assessment and treatment techniques for turning evidence-based theory into practice"--