Oxford textbook of old age psychiatry / edited by Tom Dening, Alan Thomas.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Section 1. Scientific background -- Section 2. Clinical practice -- Section 3. Service provision -- Section 4. Specific disorders -- Section 5. Ethical and legal issues -- --

Section 1. Scientific background -- 1. Biological aspects of human ageing / Tom Kirkwood, Doug Gray & Carole Proctor -- 2. Psychometric assessment in older people / Karen Ritchie -- 3. Sociology of ageing / Ricca Edmondson -- 4. Transforming concepts of ageing: 3 case studies from anthropology / Sharon Kaufman, Julie Livingston, Hong Zhang & Margaret Lock -- 5. Epidemiology / Thais Minett, Blossom Stephan & Carol Brayne -- 6. Neuropathology / Johannes Attems & Kurt Jellinger -- 7. Neurochemistry / Margaret Piggott -- 8. Molecular genetics/molecular biology / Denise Harold & Julie Williams -- -- Section 2. Clinical practice -- 9. Psychiatric assessment of older people / Alan Thomas -- 10. Clinical cognitive assessment / Chris Kipps & John Hodges -- 11. Physical assessment / Duncan Forsyth -- 12. Neuroimaging / Claire E. Sexton, Verena Heise & Klaus Ebmeier -- 13. Psychopharmacology / Craig Ritchie -- 14. Brain stimulation therapies / Daniel O'Connor & Chris Plakiotis -- 15. Person- and Relationship- centred care / John Keady & Mike Nolan -- 16. Psychological treatments and older people / Philip Wilkinson -- 17. Cognitive behaviour therapy / Philip Wilkinson -- 18. Interpersonal therapy / Philip Wilkinson -- 19. Psychodynamic therapy / Jane Garner -- 20. Family therapy / Jane Pearce -- 21. Non-pharmacological interventions in care homes / Jane Fossey & Ian James -- -- Section 3. Service provision -- 22. Principles of service provision / Tom Dening -- 23. Primary care management of older people's mental health problems / Louise Robinson & Caroline Chew Graham -- 24. Memory assessment services / Sube Banerjee -- 25. Liaison old age psychiatry / John Holmes -- 26. Social care / Jo Moriarty -- 27. Care homes / Tom Dening & Alisoun Milne -- 28. Palliative care and end of life care / Elizabeth Sampson & Karen Dening -- -- Section 4. Specific disorders -- 30. Hello, I'm Me! Living well with dementia / Brian & June Hennell -- 31. Epidemiology of dementia / Laura Fratiglioni & Chengxuan Qiu -- 32. MCI and predementia syndromes / Louise Grayson & John O'Brien -- 33. Alzheimer's disease / John Paul Taylor & Alan Thomas -- 34. Vascular and mixed dementia / Robert Stewart -- 35. Dementia in Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies / Arvid Rongve and Dag Aarsland -- 36. Frontotemporal dementia / Vincent Deramecourt, Florence Lebert & Florence Pasquier -- 37. Neurological dementias / Andrew Graham -- 38. Pharmacological treatments / Roy Jones -- 39. Management of dementia / Sarah Cullum -- 40. Delirium / Jenny Hogg -- 41. The experience of depression / Judith Boast -- 42. Depressive disorders / Alan Thomas -- 43. Suicide and self harm / Helen Chiu & Joshua Tsoh -- 44. Manic syndromes / Vasu Akshya -- 45. Anxiety disorders / Ged Byrne -- 46. Late onset schizophrenia / Sarah Brunelle, Ipsit V. Vahia & Dilip V. Jeste -- 47. Personal experience of lifelong illness / Anon & Sue Green -- 48. Severe and enduring mental illness / Tom Dening & Catherine Hatfield -- 49. Alcohol and substance misuse / Henry O'Connell & Brian Lawlor -- 50. Older people with learning disabilities / Marissa Hanney -- 51. Sleep disorders / Bradley Boeve & Urs Mossiman -- 52. The effect of ageing on personality / Bob Woods & Gill Windle -- 53. Personality disorders and the effect of mental illness on personality / Catherine Oppenheimer -- 54. Sexuality in old age / Walter Bouman -- Section 5. Ethical and legal issues -- 55. Ethics and old age psychiatry / Julian C. Hughes -- 56. Mental capacity and decision making / Julian C. Hughes & Christopher Heginbotham -- 57. Ethics of living and dying with dementia / Cees Hertogh & Jenny van der Steen -- 58. Ethics of caring / Clive Baldwin & Brandi Estey-Burtt -- 59. Elder abuse and safeguarding vulnerable adults / Jill Manthorpe -- 60. Crime, mental illness, and older people / Graham Yorston -- 61. Testamentary capacity / Robin Jacoby -- 62. Driving and psychiatric illness in later life / Desmond O'Neill -- 63. The law relating to mental capacity and mental health / Kay Wheat.

"Broad in scope and with global appeal the Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry, second edition is the definitive resource on old age psychiatry. It comprehensively provides the latest knowledge on the science and practice of treating later life mental disorders, focusing on the health and social issues that arise around the ageing, dementia, that arise around ageing, dementia, co-morbidity, dependency, and the end of life in progressively ageing societies across the world. "--Publisher's website.