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Clean-up operation
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 5.6.97, 1997, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Discusses a social worker's dilemma over an elderly man who is neglecting himself but is adamant that he does not have a mental health problem.
Does the bill add up?
- Author:
- WINCHESTER Ruth
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 15.7.04, 2004, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Takes a critical look at the new Mental Capacity Bill. Although it takes on some of the critisims levelled at the previous draft, campaigners are still arguing about items in the new Bill.
The prevalence and correlates of capacity to consent to a geriatric psychiatry admission
- Authors:
- MUKHERJEE S., SHAH A.
- Journal article citation:
- Aging and Mental Health, 5(4), November 2001, pp.335-339.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Reports on a study to ascertain the prevalence and correlates of the lack of capacity to consent to geriatric psychiatry inpatient admission. All consecutive acute inpatient admissions to a geriatric psychiatry unit over a six-month period were examined by an independent research psychiatrist (SM). The overall prevalence of lack of capacity to consent to geriatric psychiatry inpatient admission was 48%. It was associated with a diagnosis of dementia, increased severity of cognitive impairment, reduced insight and detention under the Mental Health Act. These findings require replication in a larger multi-centre study. A large number of psychiatric patients are informally admitted despite lacking the capacity to consent to the admission because they do not dissent. These patients do not enjoy the safeguards available under the Mental Health Act.
AEA's response to "Who decides?: making decisions on behalf of mentally incapacitated adults"
- Author:
- ACTION ON ELDER ABUSE
- Publisher:
- Action On Elder Abuse
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 16p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Hoarding: eccentricity or pathology: when to intervene?
- Author:
- THOMAS Norma D.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 29(1), 1998, pp.45-55.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Compulsive hoarding behaviour, exhibited in late life, can have serious implications. Geriatric care managers and practitioners in Older Adult Protective Services often grapple with issues related to ethics and ageing, including client self-determination, that are raised by hoarding actions. Involuntary intervention may be needed to insure that the older person is not in imminent danger. Case examples are used in the article to illustrate the behaviour as well as provide outcomes.
Report on incapable adults: report submitted under section 3(2) of the Law Commissions Act 1965; presented to Parliament by the Lord Advocate by command of Her Majesty, September 1995
- Author:
- SCOTTISH LAW COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- HMSO
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 240p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Examines the law in Scotland relating to decision making for people who are unable to decide for themselves, looks at what is wrong with the current system. Goes on to make suggestions and recommendations for improvements.
Mentally incapacitated adults and decision-making: an overview
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Law Commission
- Publisher:
- HMSO
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 192p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Paper giving an overview of the civil law relating to mental incapacity, the present procedures available for making decisions on behalf of mentally incapacitated people, their shortcomings and some of the options for reform. Mentally handicapped people, elderly people with a mental infirmity, mentally ill people and brain damaged or physically ill or handicapped people are included.
The functional competency of elderly at risk
- Authors:
- STANTLEY Barbara, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, June 1988, pp.53-58.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Reports on a study investigating elderly people with depression or Alzheimer's Disease.
Self-neglect and hoarding: a guide to safeguarding and support
- Author:
- BARNETT Deborah
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2018
- Pagination:
- 264
- Place of publication:
- London
Hoarding and self-neglect are estimated to be a factor in 20% of social workers' cases when working with older people or adults with mental health issues. This guide introduces the patterns of self-neglect and how challenging they can be to identify. It offers practical and applicable tools and solutions for all professionals involved in working with people who self-neglect. It includes tips for assessment and decision-making in the support process, and updates following the implementation of the Care Act 2014, which deemed self-neglect a safeguarding matter. (Edited publisher abstract)
General practitioners’ assessment of, and treatment decisions regarding, common mental disorder in older adults: thematic analysis of interview data
- Authors:
- STRACHAN Jennifer, YELLOWLEES Gill, QUIGLEY April
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 35(1), 2015, pp.150-168.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Primary and secondary care services are charged with failing to adequately detect and treat mental disorder in older adults due to the ‘understandability phenomenon’; the belief that mental disorder in old age is inevitable and therefore not worthy of intervention. Quantitative data appear to support this hypothesis but lack the explanatory power of detailed accounts. Nine general practitioners (GPs) participated in group interviews about their assessment and treatment of older patients, and their expectations and experience of referral to secondary care. Resulting transcripts were subject to Thematic Analysis. Respondents recognised the unique features of these clients, and their impact on the detailed, recursive processes of assessment, clinical decision-making and intervention. GPs described confidence in managing most cases of mental disorder, describing the role of secondary care as one of consultancy in extreme or unusual cases. GPs did view mental disorder as commonly originating in adverse circumstances, and queried the validity of pharmacological or psychological interventions in these cases. They did not, however, equate understandability with acceptability, and called for social interventions to be integrated with health-care interventions to tackle the cause of mental disorder in older adults. At a wider level, findings highlight the discrepancy between assumptions about GP attitudes and actions, and their own accounts. At a local level, findings will assist in focusing secondary care service development where need is perceived, into consultancy and training. (Publisher abstract)