Neuropsychological Services provides comprehensive consultation, evaluation and intervention services via a holistic view of the individual. For the Geriatric patient Neuropsychological Services can provide information of the strengths and weaknesses in a person's cognitive abilities and emotional state. Assessment can determine degrees of dementia and identify potential red flags.

Long-term Care Facilities: 
The Mental Health Challenge

Neuropsychological Assessments

Comprehensive “psychological” (social/environmental) evaluations include:

• Review of physician- and  nursing home staff generated medical records
  
  
• Social history
  
  
• Nursing home environment observations
  
  
• Nursing home staff interviews

Comprehensive neuro- (brain-related) evaluations that include assessment of:

• Lower level executive functions (ie., attention/concentration, switching sets,
  inhibition, etc.)
  
  
• Learning/memory (ie., acquisition of new information)
  
  
• Verbal (ie., expressive and receptive language skills, processing of verbal
  information, etc.)
  
  
• Perceptual-motor (ie., sensory input, motor output and sensorimotor
  integration)
  
  
• Higher level executive functions (ie., abstract reasoning, novel problem
  solving, planning, organization, etc.)