Old Age Psychiatry

2. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-0-19-888928-1
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 100 mm x 180 mm

Any clinician or practitioner working with older people is likely to encounter psychiatric disorders, including common conditions like dementia, depression, and delirium, but also less familiar presentations such as substance misuse, phobias, or paranoid illness. The issues raised are often about diagnosis or treatment, but also often legal or ethical dilemmas involving assessment of capacity and potentially compulsion.

This book provides advice about all the commonly encountered psychiatric disorders in older patients and the likely dilemmas and choices to be made. It sets out state-of-the-art knowledge about the main disorders and reflects recent progress in imaging, therapeutics, and new treatment methods. This new edition will be invaluable for practising and trainee clinicians needing a rapid briefing in the course of their clinical duties, but also for anyone needing to understand the latest thinking in this evolving field.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Casey, Daniel

Sheehan, Bart

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Introduction

- 2: Dementia

- 3: Delirium

- 4: Mania and depression

- 5: Anxiety and behaviour disorders

- 6: Paranoid illness and schizophrenia

- 7: Services

- 8: Ethical and legal issues

- 9: Prescribing issues in older people

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel Casey works as a Specialty Registrar in Old Age Psychiatry in Oxfordshire and Berkshire, UK. He completed a Fellowship in Interventional Psychiatry in Oxford focussing on ketamine and neuromodulation. He has experience in pharmaceutical medicine and drug development.

Bart Sheehan is a Consultant Psychiatrist at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, UK. For over two decades he has worked in NHS services for older people in the community, inpatient psychiatric wards, care homes and the general hospital. He teaches and supervises students and trainees. His research has focused on trials of complex interventions for depression, dementia, and long COVID. His starting point is that referral of a 'confused' older person is an opportunity to add value; with accurate diagnosis, prognosis and management.