Oxford textbook of old age psychiatry

Dening, Tom

Oxford textbook of old age psychiatry [E-book] - 3rd ed. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020 - 1 online resource (960 pages) : - Oxford Textbooks in Psychiatry .

This edition also issued in print: 2020.

Biological aspects of human ageing / Doug Gray, Carole Proctor, and Tom Kirkwood -- Psychometric assessment in older people / Karen Ritchie -- The sociology of ageing / Ricca Edmondson -- Transforming concepts of ageing : three case studies from anthropology / Sharon R. Kaufman, Julie Livingston, Hong Zhang, and Margaret Lock -- Epidemiology of old age psychiatry : an overview of concepts and main studies / Thais Minett, Blossom Stephan, and Carol Brayne -- Neuropathology / Johannes Attems and Kurt A. Jellinger -- Neurochemical pathology of dementia / Margaret Ann Piggott -- Molecular genetics and biology of dementia / Denise Harold and Julie Williams -- Psychiatric assessment of older people / Alan Thomas -- Clinical cognitive assessment / Christopher Kipps and John Hodges -- Physical assessment of older patients / Duncan Forsyth -- Neuroimaging / Claire E. Sexton, Verena Heise, and Klaus P. Ebmeier -- Psychopharmacology in older people / Craig W. Ritchie -- Brain stimulation therapies / Daniel W. O'Connor and Chris Plakiotis -- Person- and relationship-centred dementia care : past, present, and future / John Keady and Mike Nolan -- Psychological treatments / Philip Wilkinson -- Cognitive behaviour therapy / Philip Wilkinson -- Interpersonal psychotherapy / Philip Wilkinson -- Psychodynamic psychotherapy / Jane Garner -- Family therapy / Jane Pearce -- Nonpharmacological interventions in care homes / Ian A. James and Jane Fossey -- Principles of service provision in old age psychiatry / Tom Dening -- Primary care management of older people with mental health problems / Louise Robinson and Carolyn Chew-Graham -- Memory assessment services / Sube Banerjee -- Liaison old age psychiatry / John Holmes -- Social care / Jo Moriarty -- Care homes for older people / Tom Dening and Alisoun Milne -- Palliative care and end of life care / Elizabeth Sampson and Karen Harrison Dening -- The concept of dementia. Introduction / Alan Thomas and Tom Dening ; Dementia : what is it and can we diagnose it? / Peter Whitehouse and Danny George ; A brief history of the concept of dementia / Alexander F. Kurz and Nicola T. Lautenschlager ; The DSM-5 approach to dementia / Perminder S. Sachdev ; Should we diagnose subtypes of dementia? / Robert Stewart -- Hello, I'm me! : living well with dementia / June and Brian Hennell -- Epidemiology of dementia / Laura Fratiglioni and Chengxuan Qiu -- Mild cognitive impairment and predementia syndromes / John T. O'Brien and Louise Grayson -- Alzheimer's disease / John-Paul Taylor and Alan Thomas -- Vascular and mixed dementias / Robert Stewart -- Dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson's disease dementia / Arvid Rongve and Dag Aarsland -- Frontotemporal dementia / Vincent Deramecourt, Florence Lebert, and Florence Pasquier -- Neurological dementias / Andrew Graham -- Pharmacological treatment of dementia / Roy W. Jones -- Management of dementia / Sarah Cullum -- Delirium / Jenny Hogg -- The experience of depression / Judith Boast -- Depression in older people / Alan Thomas -- Suicide and attempted suicide in older people / Helen Chiu and Joshua Tsoh -- Manic syndromes in old age / Akshya Vasudev -- Anxiety disorders in older people / Gerard Byrne -- Late-onset schizophrenia / Sarah Brunelle, Ipsit V. Vahia, and Dilip V. Jeste -- Personal experience of lifelong illness / Anonymous in collaboration with Sue Green -- Sever and enduring mental illness / Catherine Hatfield and Tom Dening -- Alcohol and substance abuse in older people / Henry O'Connell and Brian Lawlor -- Older people with learning disabilities / Maria Luisa Hanney -- Sleep disorders / Urs Peter Mosimann and Bradley F. Boeve -- The effect of ageing on personality / Bob Woods and Gill Windle -- Personality in later life : personality disorder and the effects of illness on personality / Catherine Oppenheimer -- Sexuality in later life / Walter Pierre Bouman -- Ethics and old age psychiatry / Julian C. Hughes -- Mental capacity and decision-making / Julian C. Hughes and Christopher Heginbotham -- Ethics of living and dying with dementia / Cees Hertogh and Jenny van der Steen -- The ethics of caring / Clive Baldwin and Brandi Estey-Burtt -- Elder abuse / Jill Manthorpe -- Crime, mental illness, and older people / Graeme Yorston -- Testamentary capacity / Robin Jacoby -- Driving and psychiatric illness in later life / Desmond O'Neill -- The law relating to mental capacity and mental health / Kay Wheat.

Includes bibliographical references and index. This is the new edition of the 'Oxford Textbook of Old Age Psychiatry', highly successful and well-established due to its clear writing comprehensive coverage of all issues surrounding the mental care of older people.

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