Neuropsychological Evaluation of the Older Adult: null

Author: Joanne Green
Published: May 2000
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology Books
ISBN: 0122981901
Hardcover Book
Number of Pages: 311

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Dementia affects up to a quarter of the world's population. Given the growing proportion of the population over age 65, dementia will continue to be a major public health concern. Cost-effective detection and treatment of dementing illnesses will increasingly challenge clinical practice.
Neuropsychological Evaluation of the Older Adult: A Clinician's Guidebook presents a framework for assessing whether an individual has experienced abnormal cognitive change. The book's framework follows a logical sequence, beginning with the clinical interview, moving through formal testing, identification of the patient's neuropsychological profile, preparing the evaluation report, planning feedback and follow-up services. Specific clinical guidelines and suggestions are included, addressing issues such as ensuring patient cooperation, testing efficiency, and successfully managing complex patient-family interactions. Readers will also find technical information, including principles of test design and profiles of the major neurobehavioral disorders affecting older adults.
This book will be a valuable and frequently used tool for professionals evaluating older adults, including: neuropsychologists, physicians, nurses, and social workers. The guidebook will also be useful to graduate students in clinical and neuropsychology. Demographic trends ensure growing public health concerns over dementia. Green (neurology, Wesley Woods Geriatric Center, Emory U. School of Medicine) provides a framework and specific clinical guidelines for professionals assessing older patients for cognitive abnormalities. She discusses patient referrals, formal testing, writing evaluation reports, providing feedback, planning follow-up services, and profiles of the major neuropsychological disorders affecting older adults. Appendices include forms (for evaluation referral, informed consent, neuropsychology data summary, evaluation report, interview, and behavioral observations); patient cases; and basic brain neuroanatomy.

Table of Contents
Preface
1 Activities Preceding Patient Arrival
2 The Clinical Interview
3 General Principles and Guidelines for Formal Testing
4 Evaluation of General Intellectual Function, Attention, Executive Function, Verbal Abilities, and Visuospatial and Visuoconstructive Abilities
5 Memory Evaluation in Older Adults
6 Neuropsychological Profiles of Common Disorders Affecting Older Adults I: Alzheimer's Disease, Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration
7 Neuropsychological Profiles II: Vascular Disease, Dementia with Lewy Bodies
8 Neuropsychological Profiles III: Parkinsonian Disorders, Corticobasal Degeneration, Huntington's Disease
9 Neuropsychological Profiles IV: Traumatic Brain Injury, Substance-Related Disorders, Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus, Metabolic and Toxic Disorders
10 Assessment of Depression during the Neuropsychological Evaluation
11 Organizing and Interpreting Test Findings
12 Writing the Evaluation Report
13 Providing Feedback and Planning Follow-up Services
App. A Preevaluation Letter
App. B Informed Consent of Neuropsychological Evaluation
App. C Neuropsychological Interview
App. D Behavioral Observations
App. E Neuropsychology Data Summary Sheet
App. F Outline of the Report of the Neuropsychological Evaluation
App. G Patient Cases
App. H Basic Brain Neuroanatomy
App. I List of Abbreviations
References
Index

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