Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Geriatric mental health care in the twenty-first century
  • Concepts underlying geriatric mental health care
  • Comprehensive geriatric assessment : the context of care
  • Interviewing and developing an alliance
  • Age-related changes in cognition in later life
  • Cognitive impairment in older persons
  • Alzheimer disease
  • Other dementias
  • Managing the behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia
  • Mood disorders
  • Anxiety disorders
  • Schizophrenia in later life
  • Alcohol abuse, substance abuse, and medication mismanagement
  • Other psychiatric disorders and behavioral conditions
  • Family caregiving
  • Assessing the capacity of older persons
  • Elder mistreatment : abuse and neglect
  • Violent deaths : suicide and homicide-suicide
  • Disasters and terrorism
  • End-of-life care
  • Geriatric mental health policies in context.