Schizophrenia and Other Late-Life Psychoses

Psychotic symptoms in late life can be intrinsic to underlying psychiatric disorders (as in the case of schizophrenia and other psychiatric conditions) or secondary to other factors (e.g. neurodegenerative disorders, medical comorbidities, drug effects). Such circumstance makes psychosis a condition which clinicians working in the field of geriatric medicine should be prepared to clinically assess, manage, and treat. In the present chapter, information on schizophrenia and other forms of psychoses is provided, with a focus on evidence related to the field of geriatric medicine.