... an essential reference book, both for dipping into during idle moments and for vital information when asked tricky questions by your trainee. If you own a previous edition, you will be missing out if you don't replace it. I recommend a hardback copy for your library and the paperback for your own bookshelf. British Journal of Psychiatry Oxford University Press has done an excellent job in producing an attractive, solidly bound volume at reasonable cost. It is in my view the best book of its kind in our specialty. International Psychogeriatrics, Vol 14, No 4 Any reader with a professional interest in the well-being of older people will profit from joining at least part of the journey through this book and will emerge stimulated and keen to know more. Psychological Medicine, 33 This is the best book I have seen in my clinical training for geriatric psychiatry. Doody's Journal

• 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