Public concern about Alzheimer’s disease and other conditions affecting cognition—including sundowning, poststroke depression, and chronic anxiety—is on the rise. Lengthening life spans mean that senior citizens and their caregivers expect a higher quality of life, and demand is increasing for preventive medicine and long-term maintenance in primary care and psychiatry. Statistics have historically painted a grim, monochromatic picture of the aging process, but as the brain’s resilience becomes apparent, our understanding of aging patients’ needs is branching out to span the medical spectrum of body and brain.

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