Willamette Valley, Oregon
Geriatric Psychiatry Where Residents Live
In-person psychiatric care for older adults in nursing homes, memory care, and residential care communities, delivered on site alongside the staff who know each resident best.
Care for the communities you serve
Nursing homes
Psychiatric evaluation and follow-up for long-term and post-acute residents, coordinated with the medical team.
Memory care
Practical, person-centered support for agitation, distress, and other dementia-related behaviors.
Residential care
On-site care that helps residents stay settled in the community they call home.
When behavior puts a placement at risk
Agitation, aggression, resistance to care, and sleepless nights are often a person with dementia’s way of telling us something is wrong. My goal is to understand what is driving the behavior, treat what can be treated, and help each resident stay safe and settled in the home they know.
Conditions I help manage
- Dementia-related behaviors, including agitation, aggression, and resistance to care
- Anxiety and depression
- Sleep problems
- Hallucinations and delusions
- Other mental health needs in later life
How I support residents, families, and staff
- Psychiatric evaluation and medication management
- Reducing or simplifying psychiatric medications that are no longer helping
- Nonmedication strategies for difficult behaviors
- Staff training on what drives dementia-related behaviors
- Family meetings and care planning
- Coordination with primary care providers and facility care teams
Let anyone who comes to you go away feeling better and happier. Everyone should see goodness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile. Joy shows from the eyes. . . It cannot be kept closed inside us.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
