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Multi-agency local teamwork in strategic care planning: the case of old age psychiatry
- Authors:
- LOMAS Graham, DAY Tony
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care Management and Planning, 3(4), August 1995, pp.103-110.
- Publisher:
- Pavillion
Describes the Middleton Elderly Resource and Intervention Team (MERIT) scheme, developed in Lancashire some years before the NHS and Community Care Act, which has led to greatly improved support in the community for elderly mentally ill people.
MERIT still in the pioneering role
- Authors:
- DAY Tony, LOMAS Dr Graham
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 1(2), December 1994, pp.29-30.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
A pioneering multi-disciplinary team formed to help elderly people with mental health problems and their carers is now facing the challenge of fitting into a authority-wide commissioning and care management. The successes and failures of the Middleton Elderly Resource and Intervention Team (MERIT) are described.