Geriatric Psychiatry - A Case-Based Textbook

This textbook presents real-world cases and discussions that introduce the various mental health syndromes found in the aging population before delving into the core concepts covered by geriatric psychiatry curricula.  The text follows each case study with the vital information necessary for physicians in training, including key features of each disorder and its presentation, practical guidelines for diagnosis and treatment, clinical pearls, and other devices that are essential to students of geriatric psychiatry. With the latest DSM-5 guidelines and with rich learning tools that include key points, review questions, tables, and illustrations, this text is the only resource that is specifically designed to train both American and Canadian candidates for specialty and subspecialty certification or recertification in geriatric psychiatry. It will also appeal to audiences worldwide as a state-of-the-art resource for credentialing and/or practice guidance.  The text meets the needs of the future head on with its straightforward coverage of the most frequently encountered challenges, including neuropsychiatric syndromes, psychopharmacology, eldercare and the law, substance misuse, mental health following a physical condition, medical psychiatry, and palliative care.

Written by experts in the field, Geriatric Psychiatry: A Case-Based Textbook is the ultimate resource for graduate and undergraduate medical students and certificate candidates providing mental health care for aging adults, including psychiatrists, psychologists, geriatricians, primary care and family practice doctors, neurologists, social workers, nurses, and others.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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 

Summary

This textbook presents real-world cases and discussions that introduce the various mental health syndromes found in the aging population before delving into the core concepts covered by geriatric psychiatry curricula.  The text follows each case study with the vital information necessary for physicians in training, including key features of each disorder and its presentation, practical guidelines for diagnosis and treatment, clinical pearls, and other devices that are essential to students of geriatric psychiatry. With the latest DSM-5 guidelines and with rich learning tools that include key points, review questions, tables, and illustrations, this text is the only resource that is specifically designed to train both American and Canadian candidates for specialty and subspecialty certification or recertification in geriatric psychiatry. It will also appeal to audiences worldwide as a state-of-the-art resource for credentialing and/or practice guidance.  The text meets the needs of the future head on with its straightforward coverage of the most frequently encountered challenges, including neuropsychiatric syndromes, psychopharmacology, eldercare and the law, substance misuse, mental health following a physical condition, medical psychiatry, and palliative care.

Written by experts in the field, Geriatric Psychiatry: A Case-Based Textbook is the ultimate resource for graduate and undergraduate medical students and certificate candidates providing mental health care for aging adults, including psychiatrists, psychologists, geriatricians, primary care and family practice doctors, neurologists, social workers, nurses, and others.

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“This is an excellent study source for geriatric psychiatry. Most geriatric board questions are structured as cases so the format makes sense. Additionally, it walks readers through the additional step of applying the information learned to real world cases. … This is a superb study source and reference. It has been well thought out and is successful in obtaining its goals.” (Danielle Anderson, Doody's Book Reviews, November, 2018) 

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"This is an excellent study source for geriatric psychiatry. Most geriatric board questions are structured as cases so the format makes sense. Additionally, it walks readers through the additional step of applying the information learned to real world cases. ... This is a superb study source and reference. It has been well thought out and is successful in obtaining its goals." (Danielle Anderson, Doody's Book Reviews, November, 2018) 

Product details

• Assisted by: Jame A Bourgeois (Editor), James A Bourgeois (Editor), James A. Bourgeois (Editor), Caroline Giroux (Editor), Calvin H Hirsch et al (Editor), Ana Hategan (Editor), Calvin H. Hirsch (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2018
• EAN: 9783030098049
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3009804-9
• No. of pages: 735
• Dimensions: 213 mm x 37 mm x 280 mm
• Weight: 2029 g
• Illustrations: XVII, 735 p. 125 illus., 115 illus. in color.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; B, Medicine, General practice, Neurology, Geriatrics, INTERNAL MEDICINE, Psychiatry, Neurology & clinical neurophysiology, Geriatric medicine, General Practice and Family Medicine, General Practice / Family Medicine, Geriatrics/Gerontology, General practice (Medicine), Primary care (Medicine), Primary Care Medicine