Neuropsychological Evaluation of the Older Adult

A Clinician's Guidebook

Inbunden, Engelska, 2000

Av Joanne Green, U.S.A.) Green, Joanne (Emory University, Wesley Woods Center, Atlanta, Georgia

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One of the largest patient populations seen by neuropsychologists are older adults suffering from problems associated with aging. Further, the proportion of the population aged 65 and above is rising rapidly. This book provides a guide to neuropsychological clinicians increasingly called upon to assess this population. The book details in a step-by-step fashion the phases and considerations in performing a neuropsychological assessment of an older patient. It covers procedural details including review of patient's medical records, clinical interview, formal testing, interpretation of test scores, addressing referral questions, and preparing an evaluation report.

Outlines a clear, logical approach to neuropsychological evaluation
Provides specific clinical practice guidelines for each phase of the evaluation
Integrates clinical practice with up-to-date research findings
Recommends specific tests for evaluating older adults
Details how to interpret test findings and identify the patient's neuropsychological profile
Illustrates important points with examples and case materials, many neuropathologically-confirmed
Includes forms useful in clinical practice

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2000-06-12
Mått152 x 229 x 24 mm
Vikt660 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor328
FörlagElsevier Science
ISBN9780122981906

Tillhör följande kategorier

Geriatrik inom Medicin
Klinisk psykologi inom Medicin
Neurologi och klinisk neurofysiologi inom Medicin

Dr. Green is an Associate Professor in the Department of Neurology at the Emory University School of Medicine. She is Chief Neuropsychologist of the Emory Alzheimer's Disease Center at Wesley Woods Health Center, and of the Movement Disorders Program. She has been actively involved in clinical work, research, and teaching on the neuropsychology of older adults for over ten years. She has authored or co-authored over thirty research articles and chapters related to normal and abnormal cognition, with a focus on Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease.

Activities Preceding Patient ArrivalThe Clinical InterviewGeneral Principles and Guidelines for Formal TestingEvaluation of General Intellectual Function, Attention, Executive Function, Verbal Abilities, and Visuospatial and Visuoconstructive AbilitiesMemory Evaluation in Older AdultsNeuropsychological Profiles of Common Disorders Affecting Older Adults I: Alzheimer's Disease, Frontotemporal Lobar DegenerationNeuropsychological Profiles II: Vascular disease, Dementia with Lewy BodiesNeuropsychological Profiles III: Parkinsonian Disorders, Corticobasal Degeneration, Huntington's DiseaseNeuropsychological Profiles IV: Traumatic Brain Injury, Substance-Related Disorders, Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus, Metabolic and Toxic DisordersAssessment of Depression during the Neuropsychological EvaluationOrganizing and Interpreting Test FindingsWriting the Evaluation ReportProviding Feedback and Planning Follow-up Services

"This book gives comprehensive and thorough up to date coverage of this topic... The author is to be congratulated on producing a book which travels well outside the North American context in which it was written... The book is soundly based in current research and theory... but at the same time conveys a strong sense of clinical experience and wisdom. The reader will not find here a defence of the contribution of of neuropsychology to the management of cognitive disorders in older people, but a better account of the state of the art would be difficult to imagine." --JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY, NEUROSURGERY, AND PSYCHIATRY