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BL
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852123
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Curran, Stephen.
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| Title & Author
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Practical Old Age Psychopharmacology : : a Multi-Professional Approach.
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| Publication Statement
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Boca Raton :: Chapman and Hall/CRC,, 2018.
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1 online resource (289 pages)
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1498793983
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: 9781498793988
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| Contents
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Preface; About the editors; List of contributors; 1 Psychopharmacological history through the looking-glass of advancing years; 2 Neuropathology; 3 Neurochemical changes in old age; 4 Practical issues in assessing and prescribing psychotropic drugs for older people; 5 Old age psychopharmacology: the pharmacist's perspective; 6 The role of the nurse in the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of older people with psychotropic drugs; 7 The GP and 'medicines management' for older people with mental health problems in primary care
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8 Management of geriatric mood disorders9 The treatment of psychosis in the elderly; 10 Treatment of anxiety disorders; 11 Sleep disturbance and its management in older patients Alison Diaper and Ian Hindmarch; 12 Drug treatment in dementia; 13 Pharmacogenetics and the treatment of Alzheimer's disease; 14 The role of drug therapy in the management of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia; 15 Treatment of delirium; Concluding remarks; Index
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This comprehensive overview of psychopharmacology provides practical focus on specific clinical topics, discussing mental illness drug treatments for elderly people.
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Geriatric psychopharmacology.
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Geriatric psychopharmacology.
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| Dewey Classification
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615.780846
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| LC Classification
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RC451.4.A5
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Bullock, Roger.
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