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Better prepared for care: the training needs of non-specialist staff working with older people with mental ill health
- Authors:
- LEVENSON Ros, JOULE Nikki
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 39p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report considers the training needs of non-specialist staff working with older people with mental ill health. It concludes that unqualified staff (and in many cases, their managers too) would benefit from a more comprehensive and ongoing approach to increasing their awareness of mental health in older people. This would assist them in recognising possible mental health problems and in promoting mental wellbeing, which would, in turn, lead to better understanding of the needs of older people, better communication, better care and improved health outcomes.
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- Authors:
- LEVENSON Ros, JOULE Nikki
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, March 2007, pp.32-34.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
This article reports on a study, commissioned by the Mental Health Foundation, looking at the training needs of non-professionally qualified and non-specialist staff who care for older people with mental health needs. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with 49 care staff and their managers. Their roles included home care workers, residential and day centre workers, and healthcare assistants. The study explored the specific skills, knowledge and understanding that staff need, and any contextual factors that would maximise the effectiveness and sustainability of any training provided, including management and institutional factors. As well as identifying training needs, preferred types of training and barriers to accessing training are identified.