Handbook on the Neuropsychology of Aging and Dementia
This book offers practitioners a hands-on guide to bedrock clinical tasks. The first half of the volume addresses special considerations for conducting neuropsychological assessments of older adults, such as disease management issues, sleep concerns, and ethical matters. The second section illuminat...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,
2013.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2013. |
| Series: | Clinical Handbooks in Neuropsychology,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3106-0 |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Special Considerations for the Neuropsychological Interview of Older Adults
- 2. Consideration of Cognitive Reserve
- 3. Considerations for the Neuropsychological Evaluation of Older Ethnic Minority Populations
- 4. The Assessment of Change: Serial Assessments in Dementia Evaluations
- 5. After the Diagnosis of Dementia: Considerations in Disease Management
- 6. Sleep and Aging
- 7. Medications and Cognition in Older Adults
- 8. Assessment of Depression and Anxiety in Older Adults
- 9. Neuropsychological Assessment and Management of Older Adults with Multiple Somatic Symptoms
- 10. Driving Evaluation in Older Adults
- 11. Environmental Design for Cognitive Decline
- 12. Prevention of Cognitive Decline
- 13. Clinical Neuropsychology Practice and the Medicare Patient
- 14. Professional Competence as the Foundation for Ethical Neuropsychological Practice with Older Adults
- 15. Ethical Considerations in the Neuropsychological Assessment of Older Adults
- Part II: Late Life Cognitive Disorders
- 16. Mild Cognitive Impairment and Normal Aging
- 17. Differential Diagnosis of Depression and Dementia
- 18. Assessment of Alzheimer’s disease
- 19. Vascular Cognitive Impairment
- 20. Assessment in Acute Stroke Rehabilitation
- 21. Accurate Assessment of Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia
- 22. Movement Disorders with Dementia in Older Adults
- 23. Neuropsychological Considerations for Parkinson's Disease Patients Being Considered for Surgical Intervention with Deep Brain Stimulation
- 24. Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
- 25. Episodic and Semantic Memory Disorders
- 26. Epilepsy and Aging
- 27. Neuropsychological Assessment of Older Adults with a History of Cancer
- 28. Evaluating Cognition in Patients with COPD/emphysema
- 29. Hepatic Encephalopathy
- 30. Late-Onset Schizophrenia
- 31. Capacity Evaluations in Older Adults: Neuropsychological Perspectives.