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SECTION I: BASIC SCIENCE: Biological aspects of human ageing; The sociology of ageing; Cognition and ageing; Epidemiology; Neuropathology - morbid anatomy; The neurochemistry of the major dementias of old age and indications for future drug treatment; SECTION II: CLINICAL PRACTICE: Assessment of the elderly patient; Psychiatric services for the elderly; Psychopharmacology in the elderly; Psychological therapies; Psychological aspects of physical disease; Nursing care of the elderly mentally ill; General practice and the elderly mentally ill; Social work and the elderly mentally ill; Teaching and research in old age psychiatry; Design of environments; SECTION III: SPECIFIC DISORDERS AND MEDICO-LEGAL ISSUES: The dementias of old age; Delirium; Affective disorders; Anxiety disorders in the elderly; Paranoid states in the elderly and late paraphrenia; Graduates; Alcohol and drug abuse in the elderly; Psychiatric aspects of personality in older patients; Sexuality in old age; Medico-legal issues in old age psychiatry.