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Mental health and care homes
- Editors:
- DENING Tom, MILNE Alisoun, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 416p.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
The editors draw on a wide range of clinical and research evidence about mental health and care homes. Care home residents are often very old, and many have multiple physical and mental health needs, meaning that their care poses particular challenges. They are also a marginalised group who are often invisible in the wider debates on quality of care including those about care homes. The writers, who include residents, family carers, staff, researchers, and clinicians, bring these issues together to help those working in the care home sector to deliver high quality care and support to both residents and staff. The book has four sections: 'the inside view' which includes several first-hand accounts of care home life; 'the outside view' which discusses the regulatory, funding, and legislative context in which care homes operate; 'mental health and care', a detailed review of the major mental and other health issues that arise in care homes, as well as interventions and services to offer support; and a section exploring the 'promotion of health and wellbeing' including examples of good practice.
Care of older people: mental health problems
- Authors:
- BURNS Alistair, DENING Tom, BLADWIN Robert
- Journal article citation:
- British Medical Journal, 31.3.01, 2001, pp.789-791.
- Publisher:
- British Medical Association
Outlines the current evidence of benefit in four areas: services currently available; interventions that have been shown to be effective; rating scales recommended to clinicians for detecting common mental health problem; and the needs of carers.