This textbook presents real-world cases and discussions that introduce the various mental health syndromes found in the aging population before delving into the core concepts covered by geriatric psychiatry curricula.  The text follows each case study with the vital information necessary for physicians in training, including key features of each disorder and its presentation, practical guidelines for diagnosis and treatment, clinical pearls, and other devices that are essential to students of geriatric psychiatry. With the latest DSM-5 guidelines and with rich learning tools that include key points, review questions, tables, and illustrations, this text is the only resource that is specifically designed to train both American and Canadian candidates for specialty and subspecialty certification or recertification in geriatric psychiatry. It will also appeal to audiences worldwide as a state-of-the-art resource for credentialing and/or practice guidance.  The text meets the needs of the future head on with its straightforward coverage of the most frequently encountered challenges, including neuropsychiatric syndromes, psychopharmacology, eldercare and the law, substance misuse, mental health following a physical condition, medical psychiatry, and palliative care.

Written by experts in the field, Geriatric Psychiatry: A Case-Based Textbook is the ultimate resource for graduate and undergraduate medical students and certificate candidates providing mental health care for aging adults, including psychiatrists, psychologists, geriatricians, primary care and family practice doctors, neurologists, social workers, nurses, and others.

Physiology and Pathology of Aging

Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment
Neuroimaging in Clinical Geriatric Psychiatry
Neuropsychology in Late Life
Pharmacotherapy: Safe Prescribing and Adverse Drug Events
Somatic Therapies: Electroconvulsive Therapy
Somatic Therapies: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and Deep Brain Stimulation
Psychotherapy in Late Life
Ethics, Mental Health Law, and Aging
Late-life Depression
Late-life Bipolar Disorders
Late-life Anxiety Disorders
Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders in Older Age
Trauma and Stressor-related Disorders
Late-life Psychosis
Substance Use Disorders in Late Life
Delirium in Older Adults
Major or Mild Neurocognitive Disorder due to Alzheimer Disease
Major or Mild Frontotemporal Neurocognitive Disorder
Major or Mild Neurocognitive Disorders with Lewy Bodies
Major or Mild Vascular Neurocognitive Disorder
Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Major or Mild Neurocognitive Disorders
Neuropsychiatric Manifestations of Systemic Medical Conditions
Sleep-wake Disorders in Late Life
Personality Disorders in Late Life
Psychosomatic Medicine/Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry in Late Life
Aging with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Psychiatric Emergencies in Older Adults
Geriatric Forensic Psychiatry: Risk Assessment and Management
Marginalized Geriatric Patients
Sexuality and Sexual Dysfunction in Later Life
Aging and Mental Health in the Era of Globalization
Palliative Care for Geriatric Psychiatric Patients with Life-limiting Illness
Caregiver Burnout
Geriatric Telepsychiatry: Opportunities, Models and Outcomes.