Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-209).
Contents
Background -- Aging in healthy individuals -- Clinical features and course of schizophrenia in late life -- Cognition and function in older patients with schizophrenia -- Schizophrenia in late life -- Late-onset schizophrenia -- Dementia and schizophrenia: similarities and differences -- Institutions and institutional care for older patients with schizophrenia -- Previous treatments for schizophrenia: efficacy and adverse effects -- Recent developments in pharmacological treatments -- Behavioral treatments for schizophrenia -- Late-life schizophrenia in the new millennium.