Oxford Textbook of Old Age Psychiatry

The Oxford Textbook of Old Age Psychiatry, Third Edition, has been thoroughly updated to keep pace with the developments that have taken place in old age psychiatry since publication of the Second Edition in 2013, including the publication of the DSM-5/ICD-11 classification criteria. The Third Edition also includes new chapters on the ageing brain; the experience of dementia; carers' issues; biomarkers; and old age psychiatry in low- and middle-income countries. This new edition introduces two new co-editors, Robert Stewart, Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology & Clinical Informatics at King's College London (and a Co-Editor of Practical Psychiatric Epidemiology), and John-Paul Taylor, Professor of Translational Dementia Research at Newcastle University.

Part of the authoritative Oxford Textbooks in Psychiatry series, this comprehensive resource is an essential reference for old age psychiatrists, geriatricians, and other clinicians who are interested in the mental health care of older people.

Tom Dening, Professor of Dementia Research, University of Nottingham,Alan Thomas, Professor of Old Age Psychiatry, Institute for Ageing and Health, Newcastle University,Robert Stewart, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London, Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology and Clinical Informatics,John-Paul Taylor, Senior Clinical Lecturer, Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University

Tom Dening is Professor of Dementia Research in the Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences and Head of the Centre for Dementia in the Institute of Mental Health at the University of Nottingham, UK. Prof. Dening studied Medicine at Newcastle University and trained in Psychiatry in Cambridge and Oxford. His interests include the epidemiology of mental disorders in older people, treatment of dementia and depression in older people, psychiatric services and other clinical topics. He has also published papers on neuropsychiatry, psychiatric symptoms and the history of psychiatry.


Alan Thomas is Professor of Old Age Psychiatry at Newcastle University and Honorary Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry at Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust. His research interests are clinical studies in dementia with Lewy bodies, the neuropathology of late-life depression, and wider dementia research. Professor Thomas is also the Clinical Director of the Newcastle Human Brain Tissue Resource at Newcastle University and Director of Brains for Dementia Research.


Robert Stewart is Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology and Clinical Informatics at King's College London. He has a particular interest in the nexus point of physical and mental health and leads the Clinical and Population Informatics theme of the SLAM Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health. Since its inception in 2007, Professor Stewart has served as the academic lead for the Clinical Record Interactive Search (CRIS).

John-Paul Taylor is Professor of Translational Dementia Research with the Institute of Neuroscience at Newcastle University and an Honorary Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry with the Northumberland, Tyne and Wear (NTW) NHS Trust. His research focuses on the application of neuroimaging and neurophysiological approaches in understanding symptom aetiology in Lewy body dementia. Professor Taylor also leads a specialist Lewy body dementia clinic in Newcastle and works in the local memory clinic.

1. Biological aspects of human ageing, Doug Gray, Carole Proctor, and Tom Kirkwood
2. The ageing brain, John Woulfe, Doug Gray, and Carole Proctor
3. Sociology of ageing, Ricca Edmondson
4. Epidemiology, Thais Minett, Blossom CM Stephan, and Carol Brayne
5. Neuropathology, Johannes Attems and Kurt Jellinger
6. Biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease, Andrea Vergallo, Harald Hampel, Ren? S. Bun, and Simone Lista
7. Clinical biomarkers in the diagnosis of dementia, Robert Barber
8. Molecular genetics/molecular biology, Abdul Hye and Latha Velayudhan
9. Psychiatric assessment of older people, Jonathan Huntley, Alan Thomas, and Robert Stewart
10. Clinical cognitive assessment, Sean O'Dowd
11. Physical assessment, Rowan H. Harwood and Rachel Cowan
12. Neuroimaging, Sana Suri, Vyara Valkanova, Verena Heise, Claire E. Sexton, and Klaus P. Ebmeier
13. Psychopharmacology, Delia Bishara
14. Neurostimulation therapies, Daniel W. O'Connor, Christos Plakiotis, and Peter Farnbach
15. Person- and Relationship- centred care, John Keady and Mike Nolan
16. Psychological treatments: introduction, Philip Wilkinson and Ken Laidlaw
17. Cognitive behaviour therapy, Ken Laidlaw and Philip Wilkinson
18. Interpersonal therapy, Philip Wilkinson and Ken Laidlaw
19. Non pharmacological interventions in care homes, Ian A. James and Alan Howarth
20. Principles of service provision, Tom Dening and Kuruvilla George
21. Old age psychiatry in low and middle income countries, K. S. Jacob and Cleusa P. Ferri
22. Primary care management of older people's mental health problems, Louise Robinson and Caroline A. Chew-Graham
23. Memory assessment services, Sube Banerjee and Nicolas Farina
24. Liaison old age psychiatry, Fiona Thompson and Elena Baker-Glenn
25. Social care, Jo Moriarty
26. Care homes, Tom Dening and Alisoun Milne
27. Palliative care and end of life care, Elizabeth Sampson and Karen Harrison Dening
28. The experience of dementia, Tom Dening
28a. Getting a diagnosis, Keith Oliver
28b. Screening v early diagnosis, Louise Lafortune and Carol Brayne
28c. Post diagnosis, Hilary Doxford
28d. The end of the journey and life after dementia, June Hennell
29. MCI and predementia syndromes, Deepti Marchment and Dennis Chan
30. Alzheimer's disease, John-Paul Taylor and Benjamin R. Underwood
31. Vascular and mixed dementia, Robert Stewart
32. The lewy body dementias: Dementia with lewy bodies and Parkinson s disease dementia, Arvid Rongve and Dag Aarsland
33. Frontotemporal dementia, Martina Bocchetta and Jonathan D Rohrer
34. Neurological dementias, Andrew Graham
35. Pharmacological treatments, Roy W. Jones
36. Management of dementia, Sarah Cullum and Tesema Taye
37. Delirium, Daniel Davis, Elizabeth Teale, and Rowan H. Harwood
38. The experience of depression, Anonymous
39. Depressive disorders, Alan Thomas
40. Suicide and self harm, Helen F.K. Chiu, Baoliang Zhong, and Joshua Tsoh
41. Manic syndromes, Lauren Mussen and Akshya Vasudev
42. Anxiety disorders, Gerard Byrne
43. Late onset schizophrenia, Ellen E. Lee, Baichun Hou, Ipsit V. Vahia, and Dilip V. Jeste
44. Personal experience: The red and the reason, Julie Gosling
45. Severe and enduring mental illness, Catherine Hatfield and Tom Dening
46. Alcohol and substance misuse, Tony Rao and Katy A. Jones
47. Older people with intellectual disabilities, Maria Luisa Hanney, Stephen Tyrer, and Brian Moore
48. Sleep disorders, Kirstie Anderson, Zheyu Xu, Urs Mosimann, and Bradley Boeve
49. The effect of ageing on personality, Bob Woods and Gill Windle
50. Sexuality in old age, Sharron Hinchliff and Bianca Fileborn
51. Ethics and old age psychiatry, Julian C. Hughes
52. Mental capacity and decision making, Charlotte Emmett and Julian C. Hughes
53. Ethics of living and dying with dementia, Cees Hertogh, Marike de Boer, and Simone Hendriks
54. Carers, Jan Oyebode and Sahdia Parveen
55. Elder abuse and safeguarding vulnerable adults, Jill Manthorpe
56. Older people as victims and perpetrators of crime, Claudio Di Lorito and Birgit V?llm
57. Driving and psychiatric illness in later life, Desmond O'Neill and Mark J. Rapoport
58. The law relating to mental capacity and mental health, Kay Wheat