TY  - BOOK
AU  - Blazer, D G (ed)
AU  - Steffens, D C (ed)
TI  - Essentials of geriatric psychiatry
SN  - 1585624136
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Washington, DC
PB  - American Psychiatric Publishing
N2  - This book covers the wide range of mental disorders of the elderly but also the ""normal"" biological, social, and behavioural effects of aging. Contents include: demography and epidemiology of psychiatric disorders in late life; physiological and clinical considerations of geriatric patient care; the psychiatric interview of older adults; use of the laboratory in the diagnostic workup of older adults; neuropsychological assessment of dementia; delirium; dementia and milder cognitive syndromes; mood disorders; bipolar disorder; schizophrenia and paranoid disorders; anxiety disorders; bereavement; sleep and circadian rhythm disorders; alcohol and drug problems; agitation and suspiciousness; psychopharmacology; electroconvulsive therapy; individual and group psychotherapy; working with families of older adults; clinical psychiatry in the nursing home."
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