Autumn Rights Medical Guide 2019
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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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