Geriatric Psychiatry A Case-Based Textbook

Physiology and Pathology of Aging.- Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment.- Neuroimaging in Clinical Geriatric Psychiatry.- Neuropsychology in Late Life.- Pharmacotherapy: Safe Prescribing and Adverse Drug Events.- Somatic Therapies: Electroconvulsive Therapy.- Somatic Therapies: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and Deep Brain Stimulation.- Psychotherapy in Late Life.- Ethics, Mental Health Law, and Aging.- Late-life Depression.- Late-life Bipolar Disorders.- Late-life Anxiety Disorders.- Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders in Older Age.- Trauma and Stressor-related Disorders.- Late-life Psychosis.- Substance Use Disorders in Late Life.- Delirium in Older Adults.- Major or Mild Neurocognitive Disorder due to Alzheimer Disease.- Major or Mild Frontotemporal Neurocognitive Disorder.- Major or Mild Neurocognitive Disorders with Lewy Bodies.- Major or Mild Vascular Neurocognitive Disorder.- Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Major or Mild Neurocognitive Disorders.- Neuropsychiatric Manifestations of Systemic Medical Conditions.- Sleep-wake Disorders in Late Life.- Personality Disorders in Late Life.- Psychosomatic Medicine/Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry in Late Life.- Aging with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.- Psychiatric Emergencies in Older Adults.- Geriatric Forensic Psychiatry: Risk Assessment and Management.- Marginalized Geriatric Patients.- Sexuality and Sexual Dysfunction in Later Life.- Aging and Mental Health in the Era of Globalization.- Palliative Care for Geriatric Psychiatric Patients with Life-limiting Illness.- Caregiver Burnout.- Geriatric Telepsychiatry: Opportunities, Models and Outcomes.

Ana Hategan, MD

Geriatric Psychiatrist, Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, Division of Geriatric Psychiatry,  McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada                                       

James A. Bourgeois, OD, MD

Chair, Baylor Scott and White Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences; Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Texas A&M University College of Medicine, Temple, Texas, United States

formerly:

Clinical Professor and Director, Psychosomatic Medicine Division, Department of Psychiatry/Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, University of California, San Francisco; UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, San Francisco, California, United States

 Calvin H. Hirsch, MD

Professor of Clinical Internal Medicine, Geriatrics, and Pu

blic Health Sciences, Division of General Medicine, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California, United States

 Caroline Giroux, MD, FRCPC

Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California Davis Health System, Sacramento, California, United States