Chapter 3 – Young-Onset Dementias
Abstract Dementia is stereotypically associated with older people. However, it can affect people in their forties and fifties, or even younger. Currently, even among healthcare professionals, there is a lack…
Chapter 6 – Alcohol Misuse in Older People
Abstract The clinical and public mental health aspects of alcohol misuse in older people (both men and women) have increasing relevance for both old age and addiction psychiatrists. Clinical presentations…
Chapter 5 – Mania in Late Life
Abstract Mania in late life is a serious disorder that demands specialist assessment and management. However, it is greatly under-researched. The mainstay of the older adult psychiatry workload will inevitably…
Chapter 4 – Rare and Unusual Dementias
Abstract Over 95% of cases of dementia are attributable to Alzheimer’s disease (AD), vascular dementia (VaD), dementia Lewy body (DLB), and frontotemporal dementia (FTD), as well as mixed Alzheimer’s and…
Chapter 1 – Epidemiology and Mental Health in Old Age
Abstract Epidemiology is the study of disease and its determinants in populations. Epidemiological studies investigate what the patterns of diseases are and why they develop in particular populations. Epidemiology is…
Chapter 2 – Vascular Dementia
Abstract Over the course of the last hundred years our understanding of dementia has undergone considerable change. For much of that time ‘senility’ was seen as an almost inevitable concomitant…
Chapter 21 – Intensive Care of Stroke
Chapter 21 Intensive Care of Stroke Julian Bösel Introduction Severe acute stroke, i.e. acute ischemic stroke (AIS) and intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), has been recognized to deserve management in an intensive…
Chapter 25 – Neurorehabilitation Practice for Stroke Patients
Chapter 25 Neurorehabilitation Practice for Stroke Patients Jan Mehrholz Introduction It is well known that stroke is a global healthcare problem that is very common and very disabling [1]. According…
Chapter 23 – Infections in Stroke
Chapter 23 Infections in Stroke Achim J. Kaasch and Harald Seifert Introduction Bacterial, viral, and parasitic infections are associated with stroke in several ways. First, at least 20% of strokes…
Chapter 24 – Secondary Prevention
Chapter 24 Secondary Prevention Hans-Christoph Diener and Gregory W. Albers Introduction Secondary prevention aims at preventing a stroke after a transient ischemic attack (TIA) or a recurrent stroke after a…
