Rapoport and colleagues have brought together 22 Canadian authors to write 25 chapters that cover the essential topics at the core of the discipline of geriatric psychiatry. Each chapter starts with an illustrative case description followed by point-form summaries of diagnostic and treatment issues, evidence summaries, and discussion of controversies. Questions and answers follow, which will be particularly useful for those preparing for examinations. Each chapter is quite copiously referenced and lists a smaller number of recommended resources for review. The book may well be essential reading for Canadian trainees in geriatric psychiatry, but it will be useful for trainees in psychiatry and geriatric medicine in other countries as well and should be a worthwhile reference text for nurses, allied health practitioners, and medical students. Its contents are up to date and the clinical experience of the authors shines through strongly. The editors have put together a comprehensive text that will be strongly competitive in an expanding array of concise textbooks dealing with the discipline to which International Psychogeriatrics and its parent, the International Psychogeriatric Association, are devoted.