This book is a collection of presentations from a symposium “Ageing and Dementia” held at the end of 1999 in Graz. As always with such collections, the book is as good as the presentations were and some of these are excellent and useful, others are worth reading. One or two could just have provided an opportunity to go and have a look around Graz. What the book is not is a systematic review of advances in dementia research and probably books are not good places to turn to for such reviews, as this material is generally best accessed directly from the journals themselves. The book …