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A teaching nursing home
- Author:
- UPEX Clifford
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 30.11.00, 2000, pp.43-44.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Describes a new centre of excellence for frail elderly people in Oxford.
Hold the line for carer support
- Author:
- O'DONOVAN Simon
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 3(4), July 1995, pp.20-22.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
Carers themselves identified the need for a telephone helpline service, and so the South East Wales Dementia Careline was born. Describes the first two years of this highly valued service, and plans for the future.
How to ensure your service is responsive to the needs of carers: a guide and action planning tool for managers and staff working in the health service in Newcastle
- Author:
- NEWCASTLE COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE. Newcastle Carers project
- Publisher:
- Newcastle Council for Voluntary Service. Newcastle Carers Project
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 20p.
- Place of publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne
This guide and action planning tool aims to assist staff working in the health service to implement carer related elements in various government guidance. This includes 'Caring for carers', 'National framework for mental health', 'National framework for older people', NHS plan 2001 and 'Valuing people'.
A videotape-based training method for improving the detection of depression in residents of long-term care facilities
- Authors:
- WOOD Stacey, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 42(1), February 2002, pp.114-121.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This article reviews the effectiveness of a new training program for improving nursing staffs' detection of depression within long-term care facilities. The course was designed to increase recognition of the Minimal Data Set (MDS) Mood Trigger items, to be brief, and to rely on images rather than didactics. This study used a delayed intervention design. Twenty nurses from two facilities participated in all four sessions of the study. Staff exposed to the intervention (Site 1) improved significantly in their ability to detect mood symptoms in videotaped patients after completing the training course compared with those exposed to the delayed intervention (Site 2). Improvement in detection skills at Site 2 following the training confirmed the intervention's utility. The improvement was demonstrated across levels of staff (licensed and unlicensed). Maintenance of skills was demonstrated at the 4-month follow-up. Staff successfully improved knowledge and skill of MDS mood triggers. This method may lend itself to other MDS domains.
Professionals performance in community mental health settings: a conceptual exploration
- Authors:
- WOLF Judith, PARKMAN Sue, GAWITH Libby
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 9(1), February 2000, pp.63-75.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
This article reports the results of a 'concept mapping' exercise which was held to explore participants' views on what mental health professionals should be doing in order to provide care for people with severe and enduring mental health problems in the community. Participants came form user, carer and different professional backgrounds. The general principles underlying many of the views of participants were of empowerment and rehabilitation. Nevertheless, participants rated the more specialist and therapeutic interventions, particularly crisis prevention and intervention and the development of a good therapeutic relationship, as being more important than activities that are aimed at developing clients' integration into the community. The implications of these findings for the future development of a tool to assess professionals' performance are discussed.
What's on today?
- Author:
- JOHNSON Alison
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 3(4), July 1995, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
Can older people with dementia remain in residential care alongside people who are not confused? Methodist Homes' care group initiative has been remarkably successful; it may provide part of the answer.
Review of community pharmacy staff educational needs for supporting mental health consumers and carers
- Authors:
- MEY Amary, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Community Mental Health Journal, 50(1), 2014, pp.59-67.
- Publisher:
- Springer
Development of a mental health education package for community pharmacy staff should be informed by mental health consumers/carers’ needs, expectations and experiences, and staff knowledge, skills and attitudes. This review (1) explored research on community pharmacy practice and service provision for mental health consumers/carers, and (2) identified validated methods for assessing staff knowledge, skills and attitudes about mental illness to inform the development of a training questionnaire. A literature scan using key words knowledge, skills, attitudes, and beliefs combined with community pharmacy, pharmacist, and pharmacy support staff, and mental illness, depression, anxiety was conducted. A small number of studies were found that used reliable methods to assess pharmacists’ training needs regarding mental illness and treatment options. There was little published specifically in relation to depression and anxiety in community pharmacy practice. No studies assessed the training needs of pharmacy support staff. A systematic analysis of pharmacy staff learning needs is warranted. (Publisher abstract)
In-patient psychiatric care for individuals with intellectual disabilities: the service users' and carers' perspectives
- Authors:
- LONGO Silvia, SCIOR Katrina
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 13(2), April 2004, pp.211-221.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
Little is known about the experiences of individuals with intellectual disabilities and additional mental health problems who are admitted for inpatient psychiatric care. In the UK such care is delivered in both generic psychiatric and specialised treatment settings. The present study explored service users' and carers' views on in-patient psychiatric treatment received across these two settings. Thirty service users and wherever possible their main carers were interviewed about their views on the psychiatric admission, treatment and discharge process. Data was gathered during semi-structured, one-to-one interviews. Both service users and carers identified positive and negative aspects of the psychiatric admission. For service users lack of control and information, support from staff, or conversely its absence emerged as key themes. For carers concerns about service users' vulnerability, negative staff attitudes and opportunities for involvement emerged as key themes. The accounts of both groups regarding generic psychiatric settings were predominantly negative. In contrast, specialized settings were frequently described as providing a pleasant environment, supportive and caring staff, good information sharing and satisfactory discharge arrangements. Important areas for service improvements are highlighted. Implications in particular for generic settings are considered.
Developing services for carers and families of people with mental illness
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 27p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
The aim of this document is to help local mental health services develop support services for carers of people with mental health problems. It contains guidance on developing and sustaining mental health carer support services and also includes a sample job description for carer support workers. The guidance should be read in conjunction with Standard Six (Caring for Carers) of the Mental Health National Service Framework (MHNSF) and guidance on implementation of the Carers and Disabled Children Act 2000.
A comparison of cognitively impaired attenders and their coresident carers at day hospitals and day centres in Aberdeen
- Authors:
- WARRINGTON Jill, EAGLES John M.
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 11(3), March 1996, pp.251-256.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Day care services for the mentally ill in Aberdeen are described. Cognitively impaired attenders and their coresident carers at local day hospitals are compared with their counterparts at day centres. The similarities between the two groups are more striking than the differences. Day hospitals appeared to be no more efficacious than day centres in relieving stress and psychiatric morbidity among carers. Indeed, carers of day hospital attenders were more likely to be depressed. There appear to be significant sources of selection bias in determining which elderly subjects attend which type of day care. It is suggested that current service provision in the UK lacks coherence and rationality and that randomised prospective trials are required to determine appropriate organisation of day care services.