Geriatric Forensic Psychiatry: Principles and Practice is one of the first texts to provide a comprehensive review of important topics in the intersection of geriatric psychiatry, medicine, clinical neuroscience, forensic psychiatry, and law. It will speak to a broad audience among varied fields, including clinical and forensic psychiatry and mental health professionals, geriatricians and internists, attorneys and courts, regulators, and other professionals working with the older population. Topics addressed in this text, applied to the geriatric population, include clinical forensic evaluation, regulations and laws, civil commitment, different forms of capacity, guardianship, patient rights, medical-legal issues related to treatment, long term care and telemedicine, risk management, patient safety and error reduction, elder driving, sociopathy and aggression, offenders and the adjudication process, criminal evaluations, corrections, ethics, culture, cognitive impairment, substance abuse, trauma, older professionals, high risk behavior, and forensic mental health training and research. Understanding the relationship between clinical issues, laws and regulations, and managing risk and improving safety, will help to serve the growing older population.

Table of Contents:
1. The Psychiatric and Cognitive Mental Status Examination in the Medical-Legal Context Jacob C. Holzer 2. Neuropsychiatric Aspects Involving the Elderly and the Law Robert P. Granacher Jr. 3. Behavioral Neurological Aspects Involving the Elderly and Law Robert P. Granacher Jr. 4. Neuropsychological Assessment in Geriatric Forensic Psychiatry Larua L. Frakey and Donald Davidoff 5. Neuroimaging and Geriatric Forensic Psychiatry Tannahill Glen, Joseph Simpson, Melissa Lamar, Denene M. Wambach, and Hal Wortzel 6. Federal Protections, Laws, and the Geriatric Patient Christina T. Vidoli and Jacob C. Holzer 7. The Elderly Veteran, Service, Benefits, and the Community Luisa Skoble, Jamison Rogers, and Robert Kohn 8. Civil Commitment of Older Persons Sara J. Brady and Eric Y. Drogin 9. Capacity, Informed Consent, and Guardianship Stephen L. Read and James Edward Spar 10. Capacity in the Life Course of the Elder: Testamentary Capacity, Power of Attorney, and Estate Planning Yaser Haq, Stuart Anfang, and Benjamin Liptzin 11. Forensic Issues and Caregivers of the Elderly Gary Epstein-Lunbow and Elizabeth Tobin Tyler 12. End of Life Decision Making Chad D. Kollas and Beth Boyer Kollas 13. Older Driver Assessment and Counseling Thomas M. Meuser and David B. Carr 14. Forensic Issues in the Geriatric Psychiatry Consult Liaison Service and the Right to Accept and Refuse Treatment Eran D. Metzger, Jacob C. Holder, and Rebecca W. Brendel 15. Psychopharmacological Agents, Side Effects, and Black Box Warnings Manish A. Fozdar and Jacob C. Holzer 16. Neurostimulation Therapies, Side Effects, Risks, and Benefits Heba Gad, Daniel Bateman, and Paul E. Hotzheimer 17. Patient Safety and Risk Reduction in the Geriatric Psychiatry Patient Jacob C. Holzer and Paul Gluck 18. Forensic Issues in Long-Term Care Psychiatry Marshall B. Kapp 19. Medical Legal Issues in Psychiatric Home Care and Telemental Health Robert Kohn, Thomas Sheeran, and Suzanne Duni-Briggs 20. Evaluation of Elderly Persons in the Criminal Justice System Richard L. Frierson and Shilpa Srinivasan 21. Elder Abuse Robert Kohn, Jessica Warner, Wendy Verhoek-Oftedahl, and Emily Murphy 22. The Elderly Sex Offender Hannah Stewart and J. Paul Fedoroff 23. Sociopathy, Antisocial Personality, and Directed Aggression in the Geriatric Population Olivia Zurek, Laura Stanton, and Robert Kohn 24. Violence and Aggression in the Elderly: Non-directed Aggression and Clinical Causation Ghulam Mustafa Surti, Laura Stanton, and Robert Kohn 25. Working With the Elderly Defendant Through the Adjudicative Process Barry W. Wall 26. The Geriatric Witness Simha Ravven and Howard Zonana 27. Geriatric Offenders: Evaluation and Treatment Within Correctional Settings Timothy J. McGlasson, Michael K. Champion, and Joseph V. Penn 28. Ethics in Geriatric Forensic Assessment Philip J. Candilis, Gregory B. Leong, and Robert Weinstock 29. Cultural Issues In Geriatric Forensic Psychiatry Brandy X. Lee and Grace Lee 30. Substance Use Disorders in the Elderly Michael Burgard and Robert Kohn 31. Intellectual Disabilities, Autism, and Aging: Medical-Legal Issues Mark J. Hauser, Robert Kohn, Matthew D. Lerner, Michael Stein, Becca Lory, and Harold J. Bursztajn 32. Mild Cognitive Impairment: Impact on Medical-Legal Issues David C. Hsu and James M. Ellison 33. Suicidal Behavior in the Elderly and Its Forensic Implications Maureen A. Malin, Carolina Jimenez-Madiedo, and Robert Kohn 34. The Evolving Role of Psychiatry in Physician-Assisted Dying and Euthanasia James M. Wilkins, Maureen A. Malin, and Robert Kohn 35. The Traumatized Older Individual and Society Gen Tanaka, Anothai Soonsawat, Omar Sultan Haque, and Harold J. Bursztajn 36. Issues in Medicare Billing, Documentation, and Coding Linda Martins, Ruby Nicholson, and Robert Kohn 37. The Aging Physician and Other Professionals: Assessing Fitness for Duty Marilyn Price and Donald Meyer 38. Geriatric Forensic Report Writing Sherif Soliman and Phillip J. Resnick 39. The Role of the Law and Legal Profession and Relationship to the Psychiatric Consultant Patricia R. Recupero 40. Geriatric Psychiatry Research S. Khalid Abubaker, Tyler G. Jones, and Philip J. Candilis 41. Geriatric Forensic Psychiatry Training in Forensic and Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowships Stephen L. Read, Aaron Kaufman, and Daniel T. Hackman 42. Human Rights and the Elderly: An Interventional Perspective Robert Kohn