Psychiatry in the Elderly

PART 1: BASIC SCIENCE; 1. Biological aspects of human ageing; 2. The sociology of ageing; 3. Cognitive change in old age; 4. Epidemiology; 5. Neuropathology; 6. Neurochemical pathology of neurodegenerative disorders in old age; 7. Molecular genetics and molecular biology of dementia; 8. The economics of health care provision for elderly people with dementia; PART 2: CLINICAL PRACTICE; 9. Psychiatric and clinical cognitive assessment; 10. Physical assessment of older patients; 11. Psychological assessment and treatment; 12. Neuroimaging in the elderly: radiological and electrophysical tools and findings; 13. Psychopharmacology in elderly patients; 14. Social work with older persons; 15. Psychometric assessment in the elderly; 16. Dynamic psychotherapy with older persons; 17. Family therapy with ageing families; 18. Primary care with the elderly mentally ill; 19. Liaison old age psychiatry in the general hospital; PART 3: PSYCHIATRIC SERVICES; 20. Principles of service provision in old age psychiatry; 21. Carer's lives; 22. Expect more: making a place for people with dementia; PART 4: SPECIFIC DISORDERS; 23. Epidemiology of the dementia of late life; 24. Clinical aspects of dementia; 25. Delirium: the physician's perspective; 26. Delirium - the psychiatrist's perspective; 27. Depressive disorders; 28. Suicide in older persons; 29. Manic syndromes in old age; 30. Neurotic disorders; 31. Psychiatric aspects of personality in later life; 32. Late-onset schizophrenia and very late-onset schizophrenia-like psychosis; 33. Graduates; 34. Substance abuse in the elderly; PART 5: SEXUALITY, ETHICS, AND MEDICO-LEGAL ISSUES; 35. Sexuality in old age; 36. Ethics and the psychiatry of old age; 37. Elder maltreatment; 38. Psychiatric aspects of crime and the elderly; 39. Testamentary capacity; 40. Competence; 41. Managing the financial affairs of mentally incapacitated persons in the United Kingdom and Ireland; 42. Driving and psychiatric illness in later life