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MENTAL HEALTH<br />

SEMINARS IN OLD AGE PSYCHIATRY<br />

Second edition<br />

Edited by Rob Butler<br />

Waitemata DHB and North Shore Hospital, Auckland<br />

and Cornelius Katona<br />

Helen Bamber Foundation<br />

July <strong>2019</strong><br />

234 x 156 mm 326pp<br />

4 b/w illus. 26 tables<br />

978-1-108-72398-5 Paperback<br />

£39.99<br />

A concise and up-to-date text on the mental health of older people, this<br />

second edition is fully updated to reflect changes in technology, competencybased<br />

training, guidelines, law and treatments. Each chapter sits alone as<br />

an informative, readable and helpful resource for a range of health care<br />

professionals. Together the chapters form an essential text that contributes<br />

to the rising standards in old age psychiatry. With practical guidelines on<br />

clinical management, this edition also includes new sections on topics such<br />

as palliative care and migrant health, all written by a global authorship,<br />

considering international perspectives. Targeted at qualified and trainee<br />

consultant psychiatrists, this text is also useful to other doctors, medical<br />

students and healthcare professionals who work with older people.<br />

WHY IT WILL SELL<br />

• Provides an international<br />

perspective on the field,<br />

bringing together input from a<br />

global team of authors<br />

• Updates a popular and<br />

successful concise book to<br />

reflect changes in technology,<br />

competency-based training,<br />

guidelines, law and treatments<br />

• Includes brand new sections<br />

on topics such as palliative<br />

care and migrant health<br />

CONTENTS<br />

1. Healthy ageing; 2. Clinical assessment; 3. Cognitive assessment; 4. Imaging; 5. Delirium; 6. Alzheimer’s<br />

disease; 7. Vascular dementia; 8. Dementia with Lewy bodies; 9. Frontotemporal dementia; 10. Depression;<br />

11. Bipolar disorder; 12. Psychosis; 13. Anxiety disorders; 14. Drug and alcohol misuse; 15. Attention<br />

deficit hyperactivity disorder; 16. Medications; 17. Electroconvulsive therapy and neurostimulation; 18.<br />

Psychological therapies; 19. Role of an old age psychiatrist; 20. Consultation-liaison; 21. Palliative care;<br />

22. Care homes; 23. Carers; 24. Law, capacity and ethics; 25. Migrants, refugees and asylum seekers; 26.<br />

Clinical scenarios.<br />

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION<br />

Level: medical specialists/consultants, specialist medical trainees<br />

Series: College Seminars Series<br />

www.cambridge.org/rights<br />

foreignrights@cambridge.org<br />

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