Aging and Long-Term Care: What Mental Health Clinicians Need to Know When Working with Older Adults and Their Families, Part 1

Maximilian E. Fuentes Fuhrmann, Ph.D., ABPP, is an American Board of Professional Psychology certified geropsychologist, who has over 25 years of experience working with older adults. He has taught, supervised, and written articles and books in geropsychology. Dr. Fuhrmann received his Ph.D. from the renowned clinical-aging psychology program at the University of Southern California, and over the years has taught at USC, California State University, Northridge and Channel Islands, and California Lutheran University. He supervises graduate students through the USC doctoral program in clinical-aging psychology and has provided over 150 mandatory educational trainings in gerontological issues to licensed psychotherapists and graduate students. Dr. Fuhrmann has helped to initiate inpatient geriatric psychiatric programs at Pacific Shores Hospital in Oxnard and Los Robles Regional Medical Center in Thousand Oaks, and, in 1996, became the second psychologist in California to be elected President of a Medical staff. As an advocate of the LGBT community, he conceptualized and facilitated 4 retreats for the transgendered male community, including one for couples. He was a certified trainer for the National Resource Center on LGBT Aging. He served on the Washington D.C based Transgender Aging Advocacy Initiative Committee and has co-facilitated a senior gay men’s support group at the LA Gay & Lesbian Center.