1st Edition
Health Care of the Elderly Essays in Old Age Medicine, Psychiatry and Services
1. Introduction. Health Care of the Very Elderly: Too Frail A Basket For So Many Eggs? Tom Arie Part 1: Medicine 2. Stroke Rehabilitation: What Are We All Doing? Graham Mulley 3. The Elderly in a Cold Environment A. N. Exton-Smith 4. Parkinsonism and Ageing Donald B. Calne Part 2: Psychiatry 5. Dementia: Misfits in Need of Care David Jolley 6. Affective Illnesses Felix Post 7. Neurosis in Old Age K. Bergmann 8. Psychotherapy for the Elderly Adrian Verwoerdt Part 3: Services 9. What is a ‘Social Problem’ in Geriatrics? R. V. Boyd 10. The Frail Elderly – A Social Worker’s Perspective Olive Stevenson 11. Institutional Care J. Grimley Evans 12. Screening, Surveillance and Case-Finding J. Williamson 13. Service Innovations in Geriatric Psychiatry 14. Is Geriatrics a Speciality? Bernard Isaacs.
Biography
Tom Arie was Foundation Professor of Health Care of the Elderly at the University of Nottingham, UK.
‘Barbara Gray and Bernard Isaacs have collaborated to produce a guide for practitioners which leaves little to criticize.’ Paul Brierley, Journal of Social Policy.
