It is a privilege to be asked to write the foreword for so excellent a book, so timely and so much needed by the field. Not only is it most unusual these days to have a single authored volume on so broad a topic, but Dr. La Rue has done a superb job of providing both a scholarly treatise and a practical handbook. With a burgeoning elderly population and the corresponding increase in geriatric psychopathology, the needs of mental health services are exceeding by far the supply of appropriate providers. In an effort to meet this need, psychiatry, medicine, neurology, pharmacology, psychology, nursing, and social work have all made the provision of training in geriatrics and gerontology a high priority-but I fear we are losing the race. For example, multidisciplinary teams that assess, diagnose, and treat mental health disorders in elderly patients are incomplete without clinical psychologists and neuropsy chologists, and yet there is barely a handful of clinical psychologists trained in dealing with geriatric patients. We can count on our fingers the additional ones graduated each year. In hospitals, clinics, and private practices across the country, otherwise skilled psychologists are unprepared to respond to the special mental health needs of the elderly. A few CME programs are helping to address this need, but they are clearly not enough.
Erscheinungsdatum: 29.04.2013

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Antonio E Puente

Springer London, Limited

Plenum Press

Critical issues in neuropsychology, Boston, MA, 1992

Critical issues in neuropsychology, New York, 1992

United States, United States of America

Apr 29, 2013

1, 2013

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Source title: Aging and Neuropsychological Assessment (Critical Issues in Neuropsychology)

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction to Aging and Older Adults....Pages 3-23
The Aging Brain....Pages 25-46
Cognition in Normal Aging....Pages 47-77
Neuropsychological Assessment Procedures....Pages 79-119
Examples of Normal Performance....Pages 121-139
Front Matter....Pages 141-141
Delirium and Dementia....Pages 143-161
Alzheimer’s Disease....Pages 163-197
Parkinson’s Disease....Pages 199-220
Vascular Dementia....Pages 221-237
Dementia....Pages 239-257
Depression....Pages 259-289
Depression....Pages 291-303
Back Matter....Pages 305-369

This clinical introduction to the neural effects of aging provides new insights into the effects of aging on the brain and behavior and serves as a guide to the psychological assessment of older patients. Dr. La Rue focuses on the most common neuropsychiatric disorders and uses numerous case studies to demonstrate the applications of different treatment techniques

2013-07-21