Digital technology provides many benefits to clinical practice but only if you know how to avoid the associated pitfalls. This slideshow provides easily accessible information for best practices for using e-mail, text messaging, search engines, blogs, etc.

A website for your practice can increase your patient base and decrease advertising costs, but it does require planning and an initial investment. With that said, we strongly encourage psychiatrists and others in the mental health field to consider what a Web presence can do for their practices and their patients.

A report of dropoffs of elderly individuals at hospitals, elderly persons being reported for socially inappropriate behavior, and an increase in 911 calls concerning elderly relatives with dementia attacking family members and caregivers.