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The Fuqua Center : Late Life Depression

The Fuqua Center is an integral part of Emory University School of Medicine Brain Health Center. The Fuqua Center focuses on the complex needs of the older adult population challenged by mental health disorders. The Fuqua Center is leading the Brain Health Center in providing treatment-resistant depression care, in older adults. Older adults are the most complex to treat given chronic medical conditions including neurologic disorders such as Alzheimers’s and Parkinson’s diseases. Older adults require a continuum of services to care for the person with chronic medical conditions as well as the complex psychosocial challenges which frequently act as barriers to the older adult obtaining care. The Fuqua Center has extended the Brain Health Center’s academic mission into the community both locally and throughout the state of Georgia by implementing evidenced based models of care which improve the recognition and care of older adults with mental illness. In collaboration with The Georgia Department of Behavioral Health, GA Division of Aging, Area Agencies on Aging and housing providers to name a few key agencies, the Fuqua Center is creating a community based continuum of care which makes the expertise of an academic research and treatment center available to the greater community as well as providing training for the future workforce of specialty clinicians and community based aging services providers.