Oxford Textbook of Old Age Psychiatry

The Oxford Textbook of Old Age Psychiatry, Third Edition, has been thoroughly updated to keep pace with the developments that have taken place in old age psychiatry since publication of the Second Edition in 2013, including the publication of the DSM-5/ICD-11 classification criteria. The Third Edition also includes new chapters on the ageing brain; the experience of dementia; carers' issues; biomarkers; and old age psychiatry in low- and middle-income countries. This new edition introduces two new co-editors, Robert Stewart, Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology & Clinical Informatics at King's College London (and a Co-Editor of Practical Psychiatric Epidemiology), and John-Paul Taylor, Professor of Translational Dementia Research at Newcastle University. Part of the authoritative Oxford Textbooks in Psychiatry series, this comprehensive resource is an essential reference for old age psychiatrists, geriatricians, and other clinicians who are interested in the mental health care of older people.

1 - Biological aspects of human ageing
2 - The ageing brain
3 - Sociology of ageing
4 - Epidemiology
5 - Neuropathology
6 - Biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease
7 - Clinical biomarkers in the diagnosis of dementia
8 - Molecular genetics/molecular biology
9 - Psychiatric assessment of older people
10 - Clinical cognitive assessment
11 - Physical assessment
12 - Neuroimaging
13 - Psychopharmacology
14 - Neurostimulation therapies
15 - Person- and Relationship- centred care
16 - Psychological treatments: introduction
17 - Cognitive behaviour therapy
18 - Interpersonal therapy
19 - Non pharmacological interventions in care homes
20 - Principles of service provision
21 - Old age psychiatry in low and middle income countries
22 - Primary care management of older people's mental health problems
23 - Memory assessment services
24 - Liaison old age psychiatry
25 - Social care
26 - Care homes
27 - Palliative care and end of life care
28 - The experience of dementia
28a - Getting a diagnosis
28b - Screening v early diagnosis
28c - Post diagnosis
28d - The end of the journey and life after dementia
29 - MCI and predementia syndromes
30 - Alzheimer's disease
31 - Vascular and mixed dementia
32 - The lewy body dementias: Dementia with lewy bodies and Parkinson s disease dementia
33 - Frontotemporal dementia
34 - Neurological dementias
35 - Pharmacological treatments
36 - Management of dementia
37 - Delirium
38 - The experience of depression
39 - Depressive disorders
40 - Suicide and self harm
41 - Manic syndromes
42 - Anxiety disorders
43 - Late onset schizophrenia
44 - Personal experience: The red and the reason
45 - Severe and enduring mental illness
46 - Alcohol and substance misuse
47 - Older people with intellectual disabilities
48 - Sleep disorders
49 - The effect of ageing on personality
50 - Sexuality in old age
51 - Ethics and old age psychiatry
52 - Mental capacity and decision making
53 - Ethics of living and dying with dementia
54 - Carers
55 - Elder abuse and safeguarding vulnerable adults
56 - Older people as victims and perpetrators of crime
57 - Driving and psychiatric illness in later life
58 - The law relating to mental capacity and mental health

Tom Dening is Professor of Dementia Research in the Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences and Head of the Centre for Dementia in the Institute of Mental Health at the University of Nottingham, UK. Prof. Dening studied Medicine at Newcastle University and trained in Psychiatry in Cambridge and Oxford. His interests include the epidemiology of mental disorders in older people, treatment of dementia and depression in older people, psychiatric services and other clinical topics. He has also published papers on neuropsychiatry, psychiatric symptoms and the history of psychiatry. Alan Thomas is Professor of Old Age Psychiatry at Newcastle University and Honorary Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry at Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust. His research interests are clinical studies in dementia with Lewy bodies, the neuropathology of late-life depression, and wider dementia research. Professor Thomas is also the Clinical Director of the Newcastle Human Brain Tissue Resource at Newcastle University and Director of Brains for Dementia Research. Robert Stewart is Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology and Clinical Informatics at King's College London. He has a particular interest in the nexus point of physical and mental health and leads the Clinical and Population Informatics theme of the SLAM Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health. Since its inception in 2007, Professor Stewart has served as the academic lead for the Clinical Record Interactive Search (CRIS). John-Paul Taylor is Professor of Translational Dementia Research with the Institute of Neuroscience at Newcastle University and an Honorary Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry with the Northumberland, Tyne and Wear (NTW) NHS Trust. His research focuses on the application of neuroimaging and neurophysiological approaches in understanding symptom aetiology in Lewy body dementia. Professor Taylor also leads a specialist Lewy body dementia clinic in Newcastle and works in the local memory clinic.