Handbook on the Neuropsychology of Aging and Dementia

Handbook on the Neuropsychology of Aging and Dementia edited by Lisa D. Ravdin, Heather L. Katzen.

This comprehensive update of the expert reference offers up-to-date practical advice for professionals working in neuropsychology with older adults. Focusing on fundamentals, common issues, special considerations, and late-life cognitive disorders, respected names in this critical specialty address...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Ravdin, Lisa D. (Editor), Katzen, Heather L. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
Edition:2nd ed. 2019.
Series:Clinical Handbooks in Neuropsychology,
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Neuropsychology.
Geriatrics.
Social work.
Neurology .
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • Assessment of Older Adults: Special Considerations
  • Special considerations for the neuropsychological interview
  • Consideration of cognitive reserve
  • Elder abuse: identification and intervention
  • Neuropsychological evaluation of older ethnic minority populations
  • Substance abuse in older adults
  • Chronic pain
  • Fitness for duty evaluations
  • Performance validity testing
  • Impact of anesthesia: posteroperative cognitive changes
  • Assessment of change: serial assessments of dementia evaluations
  • Sleep and aging
  • Assessment of depressoin and anxiety in older adults
  • Neuropsychological assessment and management of older adults with multiple somatic symptoms
  • Driving evaluation in older adults
  • Environmental design for cognitive decline
  • Clinical neuropsychology practice and the Medicare patient
  • Preventoin of clgnitive decline
  • Professional competence for ethical neuropsychological practice
  • Management of behavioral symptoms in dementia
  • Cognitive remediation in older adults
  • Feedback in age-related disorders
  • After the diagnosis of dementia: considerations for disease management
  • Late Life Cognitive Disorders
  • Mild cognitive impairment and normal aging
  • Differential diagnosis of depression and dementia
  • Differential diagnosis of dementia
  • Assessment of Alzheimer’s disease
  • Vascular cognitive impairement
  • Disorders of alterations in cerebral blood flow
  • Assessment in acute stroke rehabilitation
  • Accurate assessment of behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia
  • Dementia with language disorders/primary progressive aphasia
  • Movement disorders with dementia
  • Neuropsychological consideratoins for surgical interventroins for Parkinson’s disease
  • Idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus
  • Episodic and semantic memory disorders
  • Epilepsy and aging
  • Neuropsychological assessment of older adults with cancer
  • Evaluation of cognition in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
  • Hepatic encephalopathy
  • Late onset schizophrenia
  • Capacity evaluatoins in older adults: neuropsychological perspectives
  • Chronic traumatic endephalopathy
  • Cardiology and cognition: consideratoins for left ventricular assist device
  • Postoperative cognitive changes and the effects of anesthesia.

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