The Oxford Textbook of Old Age Psychiatry is the new edition of the much loved textbook previously published as Psychiatry in the Elderly. It has established itself as the standard textbook in its field due to its unique combination of comprehensive coverage, clear writing and authoritative and up-to-date information. This new edition maintains these strengths, with chapters covering the basic sciences underpinning old age psychiatry, clinical practice, psychiatric services for older people, specific disorders and medico-legal and ethical issues. The text has been extensively updated, with several new chapters added reflecting developments in the speciality. These include chapters on: different psychotherapies, e.g. interpersonal therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy, and electroconvulsive therapy; memory clinics and liaison old age psychiatry; mild cognitive impairment and sleep disorders; and chapters by patients reflecting their experiences of their illnesses. The textbook has expanded to include 73 contributors from 8 different countries covering the panoply of relevant expertise.The editorial team has also grown with Robin Jacoby and Catherine Oppenheimer now being joined by Tom Dening and Alan Thomas. The breadth of authoritative coverage will continue to make this book one which all old age psychiatrists and trainees will want to have on their bookshelves. Geriatricians and other health professionals working with older people will also find in this book a handy resource to assist them when dealing with psychiatric disorders in older people.

Part I - Basic Science

1. Alan H Bittles: Biological aspects of human ageing
2. Sarah Harper: Sociological approaches to age and ageing
3. Elizabeth Anderson: Cognitive change in old age
4. Martin Prince: Epidemiology
5. Zsuzsanna Nagy & Paul Hubbard: Neuropathology
6. Margaret Ann Piggott & Jennifer Court: Neurochemical pathology of neurodegenerative disorders of old age
7. Clive Holmes: The genetics and molecular biology of dementia
8. Karen Ritchie: Psychometry in older persons
9. Anna Hoerder-Suabedissen & Zoltán Molnár: Principles of cerebral cortical development

Part II - Clinical Practice

10. Alan Thomas: Psychiatric assessment of older people
11. Christopher M Kipps & John R Hodges: Clinical cognitive assessment
12. Duncan Forsyth: Physical assessment of older patients
13. Frank Hentschel & Hans Förstl: Neuroimaging and neurophysiology in the elderly
14. Craig Ritchie: Psychopharmacology in the elderly
15. Daniel O'Connor: Electroconvulsive therapy
16. Kathleeen Bailey, Fay Brown and Lorna Wilson: Social work, older people and mental health
17. Dawn Brooker: Person centred care
18i. Philip Wilkinson: Psychological treatments - introduction
18ii. Philip Wilkinson: Cognitive behavioural therapy
18iii. Philip Wilkinson: Interpersonal therapy
18iv. Eia Asen: Family therapy
18v.Jane Garner: Psychodynamic therapy
18vi. Ian A James & Jane Fossey: Non-pharmacolological interventions in care homes

Part III - Psychiatric Services

19. Tom Dening: Principles of service provision in old age psychiatry
20. Helen J Graham & Louise Robinson: Primary care of older people with mental illness
21. James Lindesay: Memory clinics
22. John Holmes: Liaison old age psychiatry
23. Tom Dening & Alisoun Milne: Mental health in care homes for older people
24. Mary Marshall & Gareth Hoskins: Good design for dementia means a better building for everyone

Part IV - Specific Disorders

25. Laura Fratiglioni, Eva von Strauss & Chengxuan Qiu: Epidemiology of the dementias of old age
26. John T O'Brien: Mild cognitive impairment
27. Clinical aspects of dementia
27i. Peter Ashley: Living with dementia
27ii. Alan Thomas: The syndrome of dementia
27iii. Alan Thomas: Alzheimer's disease
27iv. Robert Stewart: Vascular and mixed dementia
27v. Rupert McShane: Dementia in Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB)
27vi. Florence Pasquier, Vincent Deramecourt & Florence Lebert: Frontotemporal dementia
27vii. Andrew Graham: Neurological dementias
27viii: Gordon Wilcock: Specific pharmacological treatments for Alzheimer's disease
27ix. Jane Pearce: The management of dementia
28. Jenny Hogg: Delirium
29. Mood disorders
29i. Anon: The experience of a depressive illness
29ii. Robert Baldwin: Depressive disorders
29iii. Daniel Harwood: Suicide in older persons
29iv. Kenneth I Shulman & Nathan Herrmann: Manic syndromes in old age
30. James Lindesay: Neurotic disorders
31. Personality in later life
31i. Robert Woods & Gill Windle: The effects of ageing on personality
31ii. Catherine Oppenheimer: Personality disorder and the effects of illness on personality
32. Robert Howard: Late-onset schizophrenia and very late-onset schizophrenia-like psychosis
33. Jenny McCleery: Severe and enduring mental illness in old age
34. Henry O'Connell & Brian Lawlor: Alcohol and substance abuse in older people
35. Tony Holland: Working with older people with intellectual difficulties
36. Urs Peter Mosimann & Bradley F Boeve: Sleep disorders in older people

Part V - Sexuality, Ethics and Medico-Legal Issues

37. Walter Pierre Bouman: Sexuality in later life
38. Julian Hughes & Clive Baldwin: Ethics and old age psychiatry
39. Rolf D Hirsch & Bodo R Vollhardt: Elder maltreatment
40. Seena Fazel: Psychiatric aspects of crime in the elderly
41. Harvey D Posener & Robin Jacoby: Testamentary capacity
42. Seena Fazel: Competence
43. Denzil Lush: The legal framework in the British Isles for making decisions on behalf of mentally incapacitated people
44. Desmond O'Neill: Driving and psychiatric illness in later life

"Many people, including doctors who should know better, still view old age psychiatry as a support service for people with three or four diseases for which little can be done. This book is an ideal answer, with a richness of content ranging from complex neurology and molecular biology to compassion for individual sufferers, their relatives and carers." - Kalman Kafetz, Consultant Geriatrician, London.

"This book continues the high standards of its forerunners which have appeared in smart succession to keep up with a changing field. There is no other textbook that sits at this level between the MRCPsych level (eg 'Practical Old Age Psychiatry') and the massive tomes on single issues (eg Burns on dementia)...Overall, the book is excellent and the chapters are generally of high quality." - 2008 BMA Medical Book Awards

"This is a first-rate edition of this textbook...highly recommended." - Doody's Notes