Geriatric ADHD Discussed at Psych Congress 2021

The Psych Congress Network editorial team had a chance to sit down with Psych Congress presenter Greg Mattingly, MD, physician and principal investigator, Midwest Research Group, St Charles, Missouri, at the recent Psych Congress meeting in San Antonio, Texas.

In this video, Dr Mattingly, who is also an associate professor at Washington Univerity in St Lous, Missouri, explains that attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) changes with age and offers tips to clinicians treating geriatric ADHD.

Read the transcript:

Heather Flint:  Hello, Psych Congress Network. I am your senior digital managing editor, Heather Flint. I had the opportunity to catch up with Dr. Greg Mattingly in San Antonio, Texas at our recent Psych Congress event. We talked about ADHD. He talked about the fact that ADHD does not just end in young adulthood. It goes across the age spectrum.

He wanted to share some quick tips for clinicians treating seniors with ADHD and to remind everyone that we need to be mindful as we move through the age spectrum because ADHD is something that follows us throughout our lifetime. Sit back and enjoy this quick tip video from Dr. Mattingly. We'll see you next time.

Dr. Greg Mattingly:  Finally, we talked about...Let's go beyond kids. Let's go beyond adolescents. Let's go beyond adults. Let's talk about where many of us are living these days. How about ADHD in the senior population? I showed a group of hands in the audience. How many of you are over age 50? Over half the practitioners.

We haven't talked much about, how do you manage ADHD in people that are in those 50, 60, 70-year-old range? Maybe they've lost a spouse. Maybe they've got to transition from working into retirement.

Maybe we have to talk about having a sense of purpose, continuing to have daily structure, and medication adjustments to find the right medicine as our systemic bioavailability, our ability to metabolize the medicines, changes.

Continuing to get the right treatment options throughout the age spectrum, children, adolescents, and adults, going all the way into those, what should be our golden years, thinking about, how do we optimize improvement? Thank you for joining me from here in San Antonio at our Psych Congress. Have a great day.