Seminars in Old Age Psychiatry
2nd Edition
Published on 11. July 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
326 pages
978-1-108-72398-5 (ISBN)
Description
A concise and up-to-date text on the mental health of older people, this second edition is fully updated to reflect changes in technology, competency-based training, guidelines, law and treatments. Each chapter sits alone as an informative, readable and helpful resource for a range of health care professionals. Together the chapters form an essential text that contributes to the rising standards in old age psychiatry. With practical guidelines on clinical management, this edition also includes new sections on topics such as palliative care and migrant health, all written by a global authorship, considering international perspectives. Targeted at qualified and trainee consultant psychiatrists, this text is also useful to other doctors, medical students and healthcare professionals who work with older people.
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Series
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises; 26 Tables, black and white; 3 Halftones, black and white; 1 Line drawings, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 211 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
499 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-72398-5 (9781108723985)
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Rob Butler
Seminars in Old Age Psychiatry
E-Book
07/2019
Cambridge University Press
€39.49
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Rob Butler | Cornelius Katona
Seminars in Old Age Psychiatry
E-Book
07/2019
2nd Edition
Cambridge University Press
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Previous edition
Rob Butler | Brice Pitt
Seminars in Old Age Psychiatry
Book
01/1998
2nd Edition
RCPsych Publications
€29.31
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Content
1. Healthy ageing Rob Butler and Sati Sembhi; 2. Clinical assessment Rob Butler; 3. Cognitive assessment John Baker, Sharon Savage and Adam Zeman; 4. Imaging Vyara Valkanova and Klaus P. Ebmeier; 5. Delirium Fred Sundram, David Meagher and Sachin Jauhari; 6. Alzheimer's disease Shrikaanth Krishnamurthy; 7. Vascular dementia Naji Tabet and Gosia Raczek; 8. Dementia with Lewy bodies Ehighale Ojobo and Zuzana Walker; 9. Frontotemporal dementia Rachelle Shafei and Jonathan D. Rohrer; 10. Depression Chanaka Wijeratne; 11. Bipolar disorder Osvaldo P. Almeida, Annemiek Dols and Martha Sajatovic; 12. Psychosis Andrew H. Ford and Osvaldo P. Almeida; 13. Anxiety disorders Alexandra S. Creighton, Tanya E. Davison and David W. Kissane; 14. Drug and alcohol misuse Tony Rao; 15. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder Helen Linnington and Helen Crimlisk; 16. Medications Amanda Hotston and Ian Maidment; 17. Electroconvulsive therapy and neurostimulation Tibi Csizmadia, Paul Jones and Mark Fisher; 18. Psychological therapies Ken Laidlaw; 19. Role of an old age psychiatrist Gary Cheung and Jane Casey; 20. Consultation-liaison Thomas Desmidt, Gabriel Robert and Vincent Camus; 21. Palliative care Kirsten Moore, Nathan Davies, Nuriye Kupeli and Elizabeth L. Sampson; 22. Care homes Richard Worrall, Michal Boyd, Martin Connolly and Deborah Balmer; 23. Carers Gill Livingston and Penny Rapaport; 24. Law, capacity and ethics Claudia Cooper, Rohan Bhome and Natalie Shohan; 25. Migrants, refugees and asylum seekers Yasir Hameed and Cornelius Katona; 26. Clinical scenarios Ben Underwood and Jerry Brown.