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Psychiatry in the elderly /

This is the third edition of the comprehensive textbook of old age psychiatry. The coverage has been expanded to survey the major developments in the field of genetics and in understanding the dementias, as well as including new chapters on quality of life measurement, the economics of care, suicide...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Jacoby, Robin, Oppenheimer, Catherine
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Edición:3rd ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Biological aspects of human ageing / Alan H. Bittles
  • 2. sociology of ageing / Janet Askham
  • 3. Cognitive change in old age / Susan Iversen / Elizabeth Milwain
  • 4. Epidemiology / Martin Prince
  • 5. Neuropathology / Zsuzsanna Nagy / Margaret Esiri
  • 6. Neurochemical pathology of neurodegenerative disorders in old age / Andrew W. Procter
  • 7. Molecular genetics and molecular biology of dementia / Simon Lovestone
  • 8. economics of health care provision for elderly people with dementia / Jane Wolstenholme / Alastair Gray
  • 9. Psychiatric and clinical cognitive assessment / John Hodges / Peter Bentham
  • 10. Physical assessment of older patients / Simon Winner
  • 11. Psychological assessment and treatment / Bob Woods / Georgina Charlesworth
  • 12. Neuroimaging in the elderly: radiological and electrophysiological tools and findings / Frank Hentschel / Hans Forstl
  • 13. Psychopharmacology in elderly patients / Philip Wood
  • 14. Social work with older persons / Martin Bradshaw
  • 15. Psychometric assessment in the elderly / Karen Ritchie
  • 16. Dynamic psychotherapy with older persons / Mark Ardern
  • 17. Family therapy with ageing families / Eia K. Asen
  • 18. Primary care with the elderly mentally ill / Helen J. Graham
  • 19. Liaison old age psychiatry in the general hospital / Declan Lyons / Tom Reynolds / Michael Philpot
  • 20. Principles of service provision in old age psychiatry / Andrew F. Fairbairn
  • 21. Carers' lives / Harry Cayton
  • 22. Expect more: making a place for people with dementia / Gareth Hoskins / Mary Marshall
  • 23. Epidemiology of the dementias of late life / Anthony Jorm
  • 24. Clinical aspects of dementia
  • i. Dementia: a twentieth century historical overview / Alistair Burns
  • ii. Alzheimer's disease / Alan J. Thomas / John T. O'Brien.