Bipolar disorders involve periods of depression followed by periods of mania. Mania can be accompanied by grandiosity, lack of sleep, and excessive activity. One well-known bipolar disorder is manic depression. The treatment of schizophrenia for elderly patients is largely the same as in other schizophrenic patients. Some of the minor differences are the necessity to treat depression that often results in elderly patients as a result of psychosis.
Younger patients are less likely to become depressed as a direct result of schizophrenia.
They can be easily confused with other thought disorders, so the patient needs to be carefully evaluated before treated. Elderly patients who are diagnosed with psychosis may also experience delirium or dementia, so these conditions must be treated in addition to the psychosis. Depression Depression is a common condition amongst elderly women. Research has shown that more than one third of all depressed patients seen by doctors will go untreated because they are not properly diagnosed. Therefore, it is very important to know the symptoms of depression so that a scenario of misdiagnosis or lack of diagnosis will not occur.