Dr. Helen Kales, MD

• Geriatric Psychiatry

• Psychiatry

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• University Of Rochester

  Medical School, 1992

• Major depression and subthreshold depression among older adults receiving home care, 2018-05-08

• Finding fault: Criticism as a care management strategy and its impact on outcomes for dementia caregivers, 2019-01-03

• Improving Antidepressant Adherence and Depression Outcomes in Primary Care: The Treatment Initiation and Participation Program, 2011-01-20

• Agitation in Alzheimer's Disease as a Qualifying Condition for Medical Marijuana in the U.S., 2016-04-11

• Trends in CNS-Active Polypharmacy among Older Adults Seen in Outpatient Care in the United States, 2017-04-01

• Determinants of behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia: A scoping review of the evidence, 2017-06-16

• Dementia care across a tertiary-care health system: What exists now and what needs to change, 2019-05-27

• Effect of the WeCareAdvisor™ on family caregiver outcomes in dementia: a pilot randomized controlled trial, 2018-05-10

• Management of Older Adults with Dementia who Present to Emergency Services with Neuropsychiatric Symptoms, 2016-10-04

• State of the Science: Apathy as a Model for Investigating Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms in Dementia, 2018-03-21

• Racial Differences in Adherence to Antidepressant Treatment in Later Life, 2013-02-06

• Mental Health Care Delivered to Younger Adults and Older Adults by Office-Based Physicians Nationally, 2015-07-03

• Opioids and other CNS-active polypharmacy among older adults in the United States, 2017-05-03

• Psychotropic Use and Associated Neuropsychiatric Symptoms among Patients with Dementia in the United States, 2016-02-18

• ‘The Filter is Kind of Broken': Family Caregivers' Attributions About Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia, 2017-12-13

• Predictors of suicide in patients with dementia, 2011-04-05

• WeCareAdvisor™: The development of a caregiver-focused, web-based program to assess and manage behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia, 2016-10-13

• Medical Comorbidities of Dementia: Links to Caregivers' Emotional Difficulties and Gains, 2019-11-20

• STYLE AND SUBSTANCE: A QUALITATIVE CHARACTERIZATION OF DEMENTIA CAREGIVING MANAGEMENT STYLES, 2019-11-08

• Predicting Risk of Potentially Preventable Hospitalization in Older Adults with Dementia, 2019-06-18

• Medical Care Activities among Spouses of Older Adults with Functional Disability: Implications for Caregiving Difficulties and Gains, 2017-05-04

• Mortality Risk with Use of Atypical Antipsychotics in Later-Life Bipolar Disorder, 2014-10-28

• Risk of Mortality Among Individual Antipsychotics in Patients with Dementia, 2011-10-31

• Antidepressant Prescribing in Primary Care to Older Adults without Major Depression, 2017-01-03

• Bright Light as a Preventive Intervention for Depression in Late-Life: A Pilot Study on Feasibility, Acceptability, and Symptom Improvement, 2017-11-21

• Who Receives Outpatient Monitoring During High-Risk Depression Treatment Periods?, 2010-04-14

• Medical Care Tasks Among Spousal Dementia Caregivers: Links to Care-Related Sleep Disturbances, 2018-02-01

• Distress Associated with Dementia-related Psychosis and Agitation in Relation to Healthcare Utilization and Costs, 2017-05-25

• No End in Sight: Benzodiazepine Use among Older Adults in the United States, 2016-11-23

• Management of Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Dementia in Clinical Settings: Recommendations from a Multidisciplinary Expert Panel, 2014-03-17

• "I've Learned to Just Go With the Flow”: Family Caregivers' Strategies for Managing Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia, 2018-06-09

• Characterizing Dementia Caregiver Style in Managing Care Challenges: Cognitive and Behavioral Components, 2021-01-31

• A randomized trial of a web-based platform to help families manage dementia-related behavioral symptoms: The WeCareAdvisor™, 2017-08-09

• DISCORDANT CHRONIC CONDITIONS AND DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS AMONG MIDDLE-AGED AND OLDER COUPLES, 2019-11-08

• Depression as a Potential Confounder in Estimating Mortality Associated with Antipsychotics and Other Psychotropics, 2016-04-19

• Advancing Research on Care Needs and Supportive Approaches for Persons With Dementia: Recommendations and Rationale, 2018-08-23

• "What Hath Night To Do With Sleep?”: The Caregiving Context and Dementia Caregivers' Nighttime Awakenings, 2017-10-02

• National Trends in Antidepressant, Benzodiazepine, and Other Sedative-Hypnotic Treatment of Older Adults in Psychiatric and Primary Care, 2016-08-22

• Applying Rigor: Intervention Studies for Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia, 2019-02-08

• The Role of the Occupational Therapist in the Management of Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Dementia in Clinical Settings, 2014-08-19

• Chronic Condition Discordance and Physical Activity Among Midlife and Older Couples, 2021-03-19

• The Effect of Depression and Cognitive Impairment on Enrollment in Medicare Part D, 2009-06-08

• Longitudinal Associations Between Chronic Condition Discordance and Perceived Control Among Older Couples, 2022-03-28