The latest edition of The Oxford Textbook of Old Age Psychiatry, second edition has recently been released.
Broad in scope and with global appeal it has been described as the definitive resource on old age psychiatry. It comprehensively provides the latest knowledge on the science and practice of treating later life mental disorders, focusing on the health and social issues that arise around ageing, dementia, co-morbidity, dependency, and the end of life in progressively ageing societies across the world.
Co-founder and AMI project director Prof Gerard Byrne has written a chapter in the text entitled “Anxiety disorders in older people”