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Aging and Old Age
Observing that people change both physically and cognitively as they age, Posner suggests that each of us has, in succession, two separate selves - younger and older - with different abilities, interests, and behaviors, an insight that helps clarify a number of issues concerning the elderly.
Old Age
The man who claimed he grew young at 70. an old man at 50, he determined to thwart the ravages of ill health and advancing years, and after much study and experiment, perfected a regime which he claims made a new man of him. Some of the contents: the F.
Vital Involvement in Old Age
Erikson's now-famous concept of the life cycle delineates eight stages of psychological development through which each of us progresses. The last stage, old age, challenges the individual to rework the past while remaining involved in the present. The authors begin this work with their theory of life's stages through old age. In Part two, they discuss their interviews with twenty-nine octogenarians, on whom life history data has been collected for over fifty years. Part three is a discussion of the life history of the protagonist in Ingmar Bergman's film Wild Strawberries. In Part four, "Old age in our society", the authors offer suggestions for "vital involvement." Erik H. Erikson is winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
Everything You Need to Know about Old Age Psychiatry--
The latest in our successful series of titles in Old Age Psychiatry, this new volume will have great appeal as it brings readers right up to date on clinical aspects of psychiatric disease in the elderly, with a particular emphasis on new developments in the dementias.The book is divided into three sections, the first two of which are devoted to Dementia: Section I Laboratory of Clinic, which tackles the molecular biology of Alzheimer's disease, risk factors for dementia, clinical genetics, prion diseases, Lewy body and vascular dementia, and Section II Treatments and Ethical Considerations which includes chapters on drug treatments for the cognitive symptoms of dementia, residential care, forensic psychiatry, and the arguments For and against assisted death in dementia. The seven chapters of Section HI deal with the Management of Functional Disorders and include chapters on antidepressants, treatment-resistant depression, ECT therapy, rational treatment of anxiety and panic in the elderly, novel antipsychotics and schizophrenia, and family therapy.
Old Old Age
This is about the `old old¿, not the physically lively sixty and seventy-year-olds, but octogenarians having a voice. The eighties are when it all begins to crumble.This book gives the young and middle-aged insights into the world of the elderly. It deals with frailty, loss, loneliness, and death, but it¿s not a gloomy book: it uses extracts from novels and poems to help in exploring growing old. It balances lightness and seriousness and will have an acute relevance for its older readers.
Mental Health Problems in Old Age
This multi-disciplinary and multi-occupational work, contains newly commissioned material and previously unpublished articles on mental health disorders that afflict the aged. Written to promote an awareness of the nature of mental health disorders found in older people, it also discusses the pros and cons of current community health policies.
