Practical Old Age Psychopharmacology - A Multi-Professional Approach

Informationen zum Autor Stephen Curran, Roger Bullock Zusammenfassung Tailoring mental illness drug treatments specifically for elderly people has been a neglected area Inhaltsverzeichnis Psychopharmacological history through the looking glass of advancing years. Neuropathology. Neurochemical changes in old age. Assessing older people before treatment with psychotropic drugs. Old age psychopharmacology; the pharmacist perspective. The role of the nurse in the assessment! diagnosis and treatment of older people with psychotropic drugs. The GP and 'Medicines Management' for older people with mental health problems in primary care. Management of geriatric mood disorders. The treatment of psychosis in the elderly. Treatment of anxiety disorders. Sleep disturbance and its management in older patients. Drug treatment in dementia. Pharmacogenetics and the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. The role of drug therapy in the management of behavioural and psychological symptoms in dementia. Treatment of delirium.

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• Authors: Roger Bullock, Bullock Roger, Stephen Curran, Stephen (South West Yorkshire Mental Healt Curran, Stephen (University of Huddersfield and So Curran, Stephen Bullock Curran, Curran Stephen
• Assisted by: Roger Bullock (Editor), Bullock Roger (Editor), Stephen Curran (Editor), Curran Stephen (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.06.2005
• EAN: 9781857759587
• ISBN: 978-1-85775-958-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General, MEDICAL / Geriatrics, MEDICAL / Psychiatry / Psychopharmacology, Psychiatry, Geriatric medicine, Psychopharmacology