This is a personal but authoritative guide written by two experienced clinicians for those practitioners and hospital specialists faced occasionally with a neurological problem in an elderly patient. The authors give practical guidance in the diagnosis and management of common neurological problems in the elderly: problems such as "confusion" and dementia, gait disturbance, visual problems, incontinence, disturbance of consciousness and loss of use in the hands. The problem-oriented, clinical approach is tailored to the needs of specialists looking for supplements to the comprehensive texts that describe classical history-taking and examination methods but, in many cases, do not help solve the problems encountered in everyday practice.
Kein umfassendes Lehrbuch - wohl aber ein praktischer Führer bei der Diagnose und Behandlung allgemeiner Probleme der Klinischen Neurologie des alternden Menschen.

1 The Neurological Examination of The Elderly Patient

History-taking
The General Examination
Temperature
Blood Pressure
Aids, Appliances and Chairs
The Neurological Examination
2 The Investigation of the Elderly Patient
Lumbar Puncture
Computed Tomography (CT) Scan
Electroencephalography (EEG)
Electromyography (EMG) and Nerve Conduction Velocity (NCV)
Evoked Potential Recording
Myelography
Angiography
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
3 "Confusion" and Dementia
History
Examination
Acute and Subacute Organic Brain Syndromes
Dementia: Chronic Organic Brain Syndromes
Parkinson's Disease and Dementia
Dementia of Frontal Type
Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
Pseudodementia
4 Disturbances of Gait and Balance, and Falls
Maintenance of Posture and the Effects of Age and Age-related Disease
Neuropathies
Subacute Combined Degeneration of the Cord
Gait Dyspraxia
5 Headache and Facial Neuralgia
Headache
Facial Neuralgia
6 Some Visual Problems
Episodic Visual Disturbance
Persistent and Progressive Visual Disturbance
Double Vision
Visual Hallucinations and Disorders of Visual Perception
7 Incontinence
Urinary Incontinence
Faecal Incontinence
Conclusion
8 Parkinsonism and Abnormal Movement Disorders
The Presenting Symptoms and Signs of Parkinsonism
The Examination of the Patient with Parkinsonism
Other Signs in Parkinsonism
Assessment
Course
Parkinson's Disease and Senile Parkinsonism
Abnormal Movement Disorders: Dystonias
9 Attacks of Loss of Consciousness and Disturbance of Memory
Attacks of Loss of Consciousness
Amnesic States
10 Loss of Use in the Upper Limb
The History
The Examination
Abnormal Involuntary Movements
11 Neurological Presentations of General MedicalDisorders
Diabetesm Mellitus
Hypoglycaemia
Thyroid Disease
Disorders of Water and Mineral Metabolism
Disorders of Calcium Metabolism
Alcohol and Alcoholism
Nutritional and other Vitamin Deficiencies
Neuropsychiatric Manifestations of Malignant Disease
Herpes Zoster
Myeloma and Dysproteinaemias
Drugs
References and Further Reading.