Publisher's Synopsis
The major growth of interest in research specifically concerned with clinical aspects of the psychiatry of old age led in 1986 to the publication of an international journal entirely devoted to this topic. This book is a collection of papers from the most recent volumes, selected to reflect the high quality and wide coverage for which the International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry has become renowned. The book's purpose is to provide, for those in the field who are not regular readers of the journal, a guide to the key research topics relevant to their work, with particular emphasis on the day–to–day preoccupations and interests of clinicians dealing with the elderly. All those working in the fields of mental health care, geriatric medicine and primary and community care who seek a fuller understanding of the disorders they treat and how to manage them will find that this collection provides a valuable insight into the scope and breadth of the research which underpins their clinical work.
