SECTION 1: SCIENTIFIC BACKGROUND ; 1. Biological aspects of human ageing ; 2. Psychometric assessment in older people ; 3. Sociology of ageing ; 4. Transforming concepts of ageing: 3 case studies from anthropology ; 5. Epidemiology ; 6. Neuropathology ; 7. Neurochemistry ; 8. Molecular genetics/molecular biology ; SECTION 2: CLINICAL PRACTICE ; 9. Psychiatric assessment of older people ; 10. Clinical cognitive assessment ; 11. Physical assessment ; 12. Neuroimaging ; 13. Psychopharmacology ; 14. Brain stimulation therapies ; 15. Person- and Relationship- centred care ; 16. Psychological treatments and older people ; 17. Cognitive behaviour therapy ; 18. Interpersonal therapy ; 19. Psychodynamic therapy ; 20. Family therapy ; 21. Non-pharmacological interventions in care homes ; SECTION 3: SERVICE PROVISION ; 22. Principles of service provision ; 23. Primary care management of older people's mental health problems ; 24. Memory assessment services ; 25. Liaison old age psychiatry ; 26. Social care ; 27. Care homes ; 28. Palliative care and end of life care ; SECTION 4: SPECIFIC DISORDERS ; 29. The concept of dementia ; Introduction ; Dementia: what is it and can we diagnose it? ; Dementia: a brief history of the concept ; The DSM-5 approach to dementia ; Should we diagnose subtypes of dementia? ; 30. Hello, I'm Me! Living well with dementia ; 31. Epidemiology of dementia ; 32. MCI and predementia syndromes ; 33. Alzheimer's disease ; 34. Vascular and mixed dementia ; 35. Dementia in Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies ; 36. Frontotemporal dementia ; 37. Neurological dementias ; 38. Pharmacological treatments ; 39. Management of dementia ; 40. Delirium ; 41. The experience of depression ; 42. Depressive disorders ; 43. Suicide and self harm ; 44. Manic syndromes ; 45. Anxiety disorders ; 46. Late onset schizophrenia ; 47. Personal experience of lifelong illness ; 48. Severe and enduring mental illness ; 49. Alcohol and substance misuse ; 50. Older people with learning disabilities ; 51. Sleep disorders ; 52. The effect of ageing on personality ; 53. Personality disorders and the effect of mental illness on personality ; 54. Sexuality in old age ; SECTION 5: ETHICAL AND LEGAL ISSUES ; 55. Ethics and old age psychiatry ; 56. Mental capacity and decision making ; 57. Ethics of living and dying with dementia ; 58. Ethics of caring ; 59. Elder abuse and safeguarding vulnerable adults ; 60. Crime, mental illness, and older people ; 61. Testamentary capacity ; 62. Driving and psychiatric illness in later life ; 63. The law relating to mental capacity and mental health
Broad in scope and with global appeal The Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry, second edition is the definitive resource on old age psychiatry. It provides the latest knowledge on the science and practice of treating later life mental mental disorders.