Book contents
- Guide to the Psychiatry of Old Age
- Frontispiece
- Guide to the Psychiatry of Old Age
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 What is the psychiatry of old age and why do we need it?
- 2 Assessing the elderly psychiatric patient
- 3 Differential diagnosis – the 3Ds
- 4 The dementias
- 5 Behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia
- 6 Delirium
- 7 Mood disorders in late life
- 8 Schizophrenia and related disorders in late life
- 9 Neurotic and personality disorders
- 10 Substance abuse and Iatrogenesis in late life
- 11 Services for older patients with psychiatric disorders
- 12 The future of the psychiatry of old age
- Index
6 - Delirium
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 November 2010
- Guide to the Psychiatry of Old Age
- Frontispiece
- Guide to the Psychiatry of Old Age
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 What is the psychiatry of old age and why do we need it?
- 2 Assessing the elderly psychiatric patient
- 3 Differential diagnosis – the 3Ds
- 4 The dementias
- 5 Behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia
- 6 Delirium
- 7 Mood disorders in late life
- 8 Schizophrenia and related disorders in late life
- 9 Neurotic and personality disorders
- 10 Substance abuse and Iatrogenesis in late life
- 11 Services for older patients with psychiatric disorders
- 12 The future of the psychiatry of old age
- Index
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- Guide to the Psychiatry of Old Age , pp. 57 - 68Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010