HLTHAGE 3N03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Anxiety Disorder, Sleep Disorder, Eating Disorder

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Health, Aging and Society
• Course: HLTHAGE 3N03
• Professor: Larkin Lamarche

Document Summary

Excessive worry or anxiety, more days than not, over 6 months: difficult to control worry, you"re worryi(cid:374)g, (cid:271)ut it"s just always. Episode not attributable to physiological effects of substance or another medical condition. Look for any overlap (phobia, ocd, eating disorder: depending on the source of the worry - could be another diagnosis there, sub-types or another medical illness. Late onset: gender (more women than men), adverse life events, chronic disease. 65 and brought it along with them: other half is late onset. Fear of falling: not in dsm-5, common course of anxiety in older adults, usually associated with poor balance abilities. Dsm-5 diagnosis: 2 or more of the follow for at least a one-month (or longer) period of time. At least one of them should be 1-3: delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, grossly disorganized or catatonic behaviour, negative symptoms (i. e. , diminished emotional expression)