Kempler has accomplished a great deal with this book. It provides comprehensive, sophisticated, and highly accessible coverage of a vast and important area. Clinicians, researchers, and students from several disciplines will find this text extremely useful due to its thoroughness and scope. And, almost as important in practical terms, the book is easy to read.
-- Hiram Brownell, Ph.D.
Daniel Kempler's book has a wonderfully clear, smooth teaching voice which brings clarity to difficult topics. The emphasis on treatment strategies in addition to assessment strategies stands out, as does the attention to successful and normal aging as well as pathology. The book serves well as an introduction for practitioners and students who are working with the elderly and want to expand their knowledge of neurobehavioral issues, as well as a refresher or quick reference for more advanced readers.
-- Laura M. Clark, Ph.D.
This comprehensive and lucid book provides a unified and principled look at neurogenic disorders in aging. Nothing quite like it exists. Many professions provide service to individuals with such problems. Similarly, many professions are involved in furthering research with them. But they seldom speak a common language or a share a common understanding of them. Dr. Kempler's book provides the way for all of us to interact. . . and it follows naturally, that individuals who have these disorders should benefit.
-- Audrey L. Holland, Ph.D.
This book is a lucidly written, comprehensive treatment of the language and other cognitive disorders associated with aging. Professor Kempler does a super job of weaving in basic information, recent research, and rehabilitation approaches in his descriptions of such phenomena as aphasia and dementia in elders. I'd recommend it to students, clinicians, researchers, and educated caretakers alike.
-- Lorraine Obler
Neurocognitive Disorders in Aging is a well-written and comprehensive treatment of cognitive changes occurring in older individuals. The volume integrates an impressive amount of neuropsychological and neuroscience data to provide an informative discussion of neuropsychological syndromes including aphasia, agnosia, amnesia, and visuospatial deficits. Delirium and dementia are thoroughly described from a neurocognitive perspective. Neurocognitive Disorders in Aging is a rare blend of advanced neuroscience information and practical suggestions making the volume worthwhile from both theoretical and practical perspectives. This book describes disorders of aging and successful aging and contrasts neuropsychological function of aged and young individuals. Practitioners in neuropsychology, linguistics, speech therapy, physical rehabilitation, occupational therapy, neuropsychology, neurology, neuropsychiatry and behavioral neurology will find this book to be a useful addition to their libraries.
-- Jeffrey L. Cummings, M.D.
This book is very well written and delightful to read. The book is well structured, and the presentation of each chapter is straightforward. It is an excellent introduction to the different disorders that can cause cognitive and behavioral problems in older individuals, but it also constitutes a valuable source of information with regard to normal aging. This book is practical and is versatile: It is useful for students and professionals with no previous experience in the field for people who wish to expand their knowledge about a specific topic, and also for specialists in the field willing to update and refresh their knowledge and skills in this area. -- Sven Joubert
