Psychiatry in the elderly Book

	List of contributors
	List of abbreviations
1	Biological aspects of human ageing	3
2	The sociology of ageing	25
3	Cognitive change in old age	43
4	Epidemiology	80
5	Neuropathology	102
6	Neurochemical pathology of neurodegenerative disorders in old age	125
7	Molecular genetics and molecular biology of dementia	150
8	The economics of health care provision for elderly people with dementia	177
9	Psychiatric and clinical cognitive assessment	201
10	Physical assessment of older patients	226
11	Psychological assessment and treatment	245
12	Neuroimaging in the elderly: radiological and electrophysiological tools and findings	264
13	Psychopharmacology in elderly patients	286
14	Social work with older persons	315
15	Psychometric assessment in the elderly	333
16	Dynamic psychotherapy with older persons	349
17	Family therapy with ageing families	362
18	Primary care with the elderly mentally ill	378
19	Liaison old age psychiatry in the general hospital	401
20	Principles of service provision in old age psychiatry	423
21	Carers' lives	441
22	Expect more: making a place for people with dementia	460
23	Epidemiology of the dementias of late life	487
24	Clinical aspects of dementia
i	Dementia: a twentieth century historical overview	501
ii	Alzheimer's disease	508
iii	Vascular dementia	533
iv	Dementia in Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB)	544
v	Frontotemporal dementia	553
vi	Neurological dementias	562
vii	Specific pharmacological treatments for Alzheimer's disease	570
viii	The management of dementia	577
25	Delirium: the physician's perspective	592
26	Delirium - the psychiatrist's perspective	616
27	Depressive disorders	627
28	Suicide in older persons	677
29	Manic syndromes in old age	683
30	Neurotic disorders	696
31	Psychiatric aspects of personality in later life	722
32	Late-onset schizophrenia and very late-onset schizophrenia-like psychosis	744
33	Graduates	762
34	Substance abuse in the elderly	799
35	Sexuality in old age	837
36	Ethics and the psychiatry of old age	863
37	Elder maltreatment	896
38	Psychiatric aspects of crime and the elderly	919
39	Testamentary capacity	932
40	Competence	941
41	Managing the financial affairs of mentally incapacitated persons in the United Kingdom and Ireland	951
42	Driving and psychiatric illness in later life	966
	Index	977