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The article offers information on values in mental health care. Topics include defined as the relationship between quality of care and the dollar cost of providing; several outcome measures are endorsed by the National Quality Forum, and are difficult to interpret without appropriate risk adjustment; and treatment consists of interventions involving biological, psychological, and social approaches.

The article focuses on the activities of the Council on Aging and its committees. It notes that the council and its components serve as source of expertise in geriatric psychiatry for general psychiatrists and provide general information on geropsychiatric issues to nonpsychiatric physicians and other health professionals. Furthermore, they also serve as the chief policy body for geropsychiatric matters within American Psychiatry Association (APA). Prescribing of antipsychotic medications for Alzheimer's disease patients, development of a draft position statement on integrated care of the elderly and council self-assessment and discussion of long-term goals are some of the issues discussed by the council during the APA September Components Meeting on September 6, 2008.