Clinical Reviews
Abisola Famakinwa
Increases in life expectancy and the aging of the baby boomer generation has resulted in unprecedented high numbers of older adults in the U.S. and Canada and, thus, a rising number of frail older adults with chronic medical conditions.
Antonio Terracciano
et al.
Individual differences in personality traits are generally stable during adulthood; where there are changes, they are generally in the direction of greater maturity.
New-onset paranoid symptoms are common among older individuals. They can signify an acute mental status change owing to medical illness, correspond to behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia, or equate to an underlying affective or primary psychotic mental disorder.
Svante Östling
The growing proportion of older adults in the population has increased the interest in psychiatric symptoms and disorders that seriously compromise the quality of life in this age group.
Late-life anxiety can often be “silent”--missed or difficult to diagnose as older adults tend to somatize psychiatric problems; have multiple psychiatric, medical, and medication issues; and present anxiety differently than do younger patients.
Elizabeth A. Johnson
et al.
Depression, the most frequent neuropsychological problem after stroke, is greatly influenced by the complex relationships between the neurobiological and psychological changes that occur after stroke.
Depression is a common sequela of stroke, occurring in approximately 33% of all patients.
Børge Sivertsen
Chronic primary insomnia is a sleep disorder with no known secondary etiology, and the prevalence increases with advancing age.
Holly A. Tuokko
Impairments in cognition and everyday activities are primary risk factors for increases in need for care. Even before cognitive impairment is of sufficient severity to be considered dementia, complex, high-level, everyday activities may be notably impaired.
