Atlas Medical provides high quality behavioral health. Services to senior living communities.

Do your residents need Behavioral Health Care?
As part of behavioral health medicine, senior patients who suffer from behavioral, mental, or emotional problems caused by aging can received support and treatment. A comprehensive mental health assessment is the beginning of coordinating this type of care. The Atlas behavioral health team consists of board-certified Psychiatrists, Psychologists, and Licenses Clinical Social Workers who collaborate on treatment plan recommendations and medication management.

Trust us to meet your behavioral healthcare needs.

  • Onsite assessments
  • Communication with clients and families regarding treatment options
  • Collaboration with Atlas Primary Care providers and community care staff allows for ideal outcomes
  • Individual and family therapy is available
  • Staff in-services and training
BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES

We provide a complete range of services to address the behavioral health needs of senior living residents.

  • Diagnostic Evaluation

    In order to determine the best treatment plant to improve your residents’ quality of life, we assess their psychosocial well-being.

  • Individualized Care Plans

    We use a variety of techniques to address a patient’s mental health needs. Researchers have shown that psychotherapy can help senior citizens reduce their anxiety and depression symptoms, as well as protect them from cognitive decline.

  • Family Therapy

    We create an environment where open communication is encourages among family members. Efforts are made by our therapists to educate family members about topics such as healthy communication, emotional acceptance, relationship strengthening, conflict resolution, trauma treatment, and grief management.

  • Behavior Management

    Our team helps residents with problematic behaviors that affect them and the entire senior community. These behaviors include isolation, aggression, wandering, difficulty with ADLs, and other maladaptive ways of coping.

    Our staff has been trained to understand the unique needs of residents with behavioral health needs, so they can better support them.

COMMUNITY BENEFITS

Our behavioral health services benefit your community through the following ways:

  • To provide your residents with high-quality care and ensure a cost-effective approach, we collaborate with the primary care physician.
  • A comprehensive treatment plan is developed after identifying the underlying concerns. As a result, your residents mood improves, their engagement increases, negative behaviors decline, and independence is enhanced.
  • Our service potentially increases community referrals. The more seniors and their families are notified about the opportunities provided by your community, the more they are able to see the benefits, which reflect the overall ambiance and appeal of your community.
  • Quality services are assured through the systematic review of our clinicians’ patient records.
  • We provide senior living communities with a comprehensive range of services to assist residents with psychological, behavioral, and cognitive difficulties that can develop as they adjust to their new environment.
PERSONAL BENEFITS

Many seniors face physical and psychological challenges that affect their mental and emotional health, as well as self-esteem and social engagement. It can be challenging to engage residents of senior communities despite the environments and interventions they provide that address these problems. With the help of trained and skilled mental health experts, residents of senior communities can overcome their reluctance to use all the services in the community.

  • Social Adjustment

    – It eases the transition to the new community environment.
    – It encourages participation in the community and decision-making activities.
    – It fosters the development of new social relationships.
    – It helps improve family relationships.

  • Emotional Support

    – It provides understanding and interventions to combat depression and anxiety.
    – It helps individuals cope with loss through bereavement counseling.

  • Mental Capacity

    – It provides compensatory techniques to maintain autonomy.
    – IT encourages active participation in activities that stimulate cognitive functions.
    – These activities include the pursuit of new hobbies and interests.

  • Physical Well-Being

    – It helps in the development of coping skills in dealing with impaired mobility, pain management, the onset of medical illnesses, and other physical health challenges.
    – It encourages the maintenance of physical well-being through proper nutrition, physical exercise, and stress reduction.

  • Self-Esteem

    – It supports the maintenance of personal independence and autonomy.
    – It inspires the development of a sense of meaning and purpose in one’s golden years.