Geriatric Consultation Liaison Psychiatry

Contributors
Abbreviations
Sect. 1 The context
1 Consultation liaison geriatric psychiatry 3
2 The effects of ageing 35
3 Coping with illness in late life 57
4 A geriatrician's perspective of consultation and liaison
psychiatry 77
Sect. 2 Assessment
5 The assessment 109
Sect. 3 The major disorders
6 Affective disorders 140
7 Anxiety 159
8 Somatoform disorders in late life 173
9 Psychosis and medical illness 191
10 Organic mental disorders 215
11 Specific patients and problems 245
Sect. 4 Treatment
12 Psychopharmacological management of the medically ill older
person 267
13 ECT in older patients with physical illness 295
14 Non-biological therapies 315
Sect. 5 Ethical and legal issues
15 Ethical issues in geriatric psychiatry liaison 337
16 A legal perspective on issues in geriatric liaison psychiatry
359
Glossary 372
Index 381