Aging and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Paul E. Ruskin, M.D., is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and Chief of Geriatric Psychiatry at the Baltimore Veterans Administration Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland. John A. Talbott, M.D., is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland. He is the editor or coeditor of numerous books in psychiatry, including a book about posttraumatic stress disorder in Vietnam veterans.

Introduction. The physiology and psychology of successful aging. Part I: Early-Age Trauma and Its Impact on Later Late. The aging veteran of World War II: psychiatric and life course insights. Late onset of posttraumatic stress disorder in aging resistance veterans in the Netherlands. Part II: Late-Age Trauma. Severe stress and the elderly: are older adults at increased risk for posttraumatic stress disorder? Age-related reactions to the buffalo creek dam collapse: effects in the second decade. Elder maltreatment and posttraumatic stress disorder. Part III: Models of Stress in the Elderly. The impact of ordinary major and small negative life events on older adults. Age differences in physiological responses to stress. Behavioral and physiological response to stress in aging animals. Conclusions and directions for further research. Index.