Psychiatry in the Elderly

by Jacoby, Robin; Oppenheimer, Catherine

• ISBN13: 9780192631510
• ISBN10: 0192631519
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-04-04
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Old age psychiatry continues to grow as speciality, driven by research advances, demographics and political will. Psychiatric services and treatments for the old are improving and the outlook for further progress is encouraging. In this new edition of the classic textbook of old age psychiatry, Robin Jacoby and Catherine Oppenheimer have retained the coherent structure of previous editions, approaching the topic under the section headings of basic sciencej, clinical practice, psychiatric services and specific disorders; however, within this logical structure they have conducted a major revision, bringing in a number of new authors and covering the full range of new research. The exciting developments in the field of molecular biology are covered as are the improvements in our understanding of the pathogenesis of the dementias, specifically, although not limited to Alzheimer's Disease. All of the chapters in this new edition have been revised and updated and there are new chapters on quality of life measurement, the economics of care, suicide in old age, hallucinations and functional symptoms in Parkinson's Disease. The team of expert contributors has grown to 62 in number, representing a wide range of specialities and providing input from nine different countries. This has resulted in the most comprehensive and holistic review of the field. Psychiatry in the Elderly continues to be essential reading for trainees, practicing psychiatrists and those in other branches of care whose work brings them into contact with elderly psychiatric patients.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	xvii
List of abbreviations	xxi
I BASIC SCIENCE
Biological aspects of human ageing	3	(22)
Alan H. Bittles
The Sociology of ageing	25	(18)
Janet Askham
Cognitive change in old age	43	(37)
Elizabeth Milwain
Susan Iversen
Epidemiology	80	(22)
Martin Prince
Neuropathology	102	(23)
Margaret Esiri
Zsuzsanna Nagy
Neurochemical pathology of neurodegenerative disorders in old age	125	(25)
Andrew W. Procter
Molecular genetics and molecular biology of dementia	150	(27)
Simon Lovestone
The economic of health care provision for elderly people with dementia	177	(24)
Jane Wolstenholme
Alastair Gray
II CLINICAL PRACTICE
Psychiatric and clinical cognitive assessment	201	(25)
Peter Bentham
John Hodges
Physical assessment of older patients	226	(19)
Simon Winner
Psychological assessment and treatment	245	(19)
Bob Woods
Georgina Charlesworth
Neuroimaging in the elderly: radiological and electrophysiological tools and findings	264	(22)
Hans Forstl
Frank Hentschel
Psychopharmacology in elderly patients	286	(29)
Philip Wood
Social work with older persons	315	(18)
Martin Bradshaw
Psychometric assessment in the elderly	333	(16)
Karen Ritchie
Dynamic psychotherapy with older persons	349	(13)
Mark Ardern
Family therapy with ageing families	362	(16)
Eia K. Asen
Primary care with the elderly mentally ill	378	(23)
Helen J. Graham
Liaison old age psychiatry in the general hospital	401	(22)
Michael Philpot
Declan Lyons
Tom Reynolds
III PSYCHIATRIC SERVICES
Principles of service provision in old age psychiatry	423	(18)
Andrew F. Fairbairn
Carers' lives	441	(19)
Harry Cayton
Expect more: making a place for people with dementia	460	(27)
Gareth Hoskins
Mary Marshall
IV SPECIFIC DISORDERS
Epidemiology of the dementias of late life	487	(105)
Anthony Jorm
Clinical aspects of dementia
Dementia: a twentieth century historical overview	501	(7)
Alistair Burns
Alzheimer's disease	508	(25)
Alan J. Thomas
John T. O'Brien
Vascular dementia	533	(11)
Robert Stewart
Dementia in Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB)	544	(9)
Rupert McShane
Frontotemporal dementia	553	(9)
Lars Gustafson
Neurological dementias	562	(8)
Richard J. Harvey
Specific pharmacological treatments for Alzheimer's disease	570	(7)
Gordon Wilcock
The management of dementia	577	(15)
Jane Pearce
Delirium: the physician's perspective	592	(24)
Neil Stewart
Sebastian Fairweather
Delirium---the psychiatrist's perspective	616	(11)
James Lindesay
Depressive disorders	627	(50)
Robert C. Baldwin
Suicide in older persons	677	(6)
Daniel Harwood
Manic syndromes in old age	683	(13)
Kenneth I. Shulman
Nathan Herrmann
Neurotic disorders	696	(26)
James Lindesay
Psychiatric aspects of personality in later life	722	(22)
Klaus Bergmann
Late-onset schizophrenia and very late-onset schizophrenia-like psychosis	744	(18)
Robert Howard
Graduates	762	(37)
Patrick Campbell
Hema Ananth
Substance abuse in the elderly	799	(38)
Roland M. Atkinson
V SEXUALITY, ETHICS, AND MEDICO-LEGAL ISSUES
Sexuality in old age	837	(26)
Catherine Oppenheimer
Ethics and the psychiatry of old age	863	(33)
Julian C. Hughes
Elder maltreatment	896	(23)
Rolf D. Hirsch
Bodo R. Vollhardt
Psychiatric aspects of crime and the elderly	919	(13)
Seena Fazel
Robin Jacoby
Testamentary capacity	932	(9)
Harvey Posener
Robin Jacoby
Competence	941	(10)
Seena Fazel
Managing the financial affairs of mentally incapacitated persons in the United Kingdom and Ireland	951	(15)
Denzil Lush
Driving and psychiatric illness in later life	966	(11)
Desmond O'Neill
Index	977