Geriatric Psychiatry

About this book

• Pocket-sized, so easily accessible at all times
• Replete with clinical pearls

Part of the Pittsburgh Pocket Psychiatry series, this volume comprehensively and definitively addresses geriatric psychiatry, focusing on depression, dementia, anxiety as well as managing the caregivers. Additional chapters cover psychotherapy, legal issues, alcohol and drug use, and chronic pain management.

Designed to be a highly practical, clinical guide for practitioners, each chapter is clearly written by one or more faculty members from Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, many of whom are recognized experts in their field. Self-assessment questions help the student learn the material.

Readership: Psychiatry residents, medical students, geriatric psychiatry fellows, nursing students, and primary care physicians.

Table of contents

• Chapter 1 Clinical Approach to the Geriatric Psychiatry Patient
  Jamie Tew, Mark Miller and Sharon Altman
• Chapter 2 Psychiatry and Medicine at the Geriatric Crossroads
  Eric Rodriguez
• Chapter 3 Legal Issues Geriatric Psychiatrists Should Understand
  Robert Wettstein
• Chapter 4 Aging Changes and Pharmacotherapy Principles
  Tanya Fabian
• Chapter 5 Delirium
  LalithKumar K. Solai
• Chapter 6 Evaluation and Management of Cognitive Disorders and Dementia Part I
  Eric McDade and Oscar Lopez
• Chapter 7 Evaluation and Management of Cognitive Disorders and Dementia Part II
  Eric McDade and Oscar Lopez
• Chapter 8 Late-Life Anxiety Disorders
  Carmen Andreescu
• Chapter 9 Late-Life Depression: Evidenced Based Treatment
  Mark Miller, Charles F. Reynolds III, Ariel Gildengers, Ellen Whyte and Carmen Andreescu
• Chapter 10 Psychotherapeutic Approaches for Depression, Cognitive Impairment and Personality Disorders in Late-Life
  Mark Miller and Jennifer Morse
• Chapter 11 Late-Life Psychosis
  LalithKumar K. Solai
• Chapter 12 Late-Life Sleep Disorders
  Anne Germain
• Chapter 13 Late-Life Substance Use Disorders
  Antoine Douaihy
• Chapter 14 Geriatric Psychiatry Management of Chronic Pain
  Jordan Karp and Mark Miller
• Chapter 15 Long Term Care Geriatric psychiatry
  Ann Zachariah
• Chapter 16 Psychosocial Factors, Health, and Quality of Life
  Richard Schulz and Rick Morycz

Future Directions
Mark Miller, Lalith Kumar Solai, Carmen Andresscu and Charles Reynolds
Index