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The relevance of guidelines for treatment mania in old age
- Author:
- SNOWDON John
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 15(9), September 2000, pp.779-783.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Reviews three sets of guidelines for the treatment of patients with bipolar disorder, in order to assess their adequacy in relation to treatment of older persons with mania. One of the three referred to differences encountered when treating elderly people, but none gave adequate attention to age-related changes in pharmacokinetics and whether it is appropriate to prescribe lithium as a first-line mood stabiliser for older persons. Concludes that the guidelines do not give clear guidance on initial management of acutely manic patients who refuse medication. Nor do they give consideration to secondary mania. Recommended that evidence be gathered in order to develop guidelines specifically for management of mental disorders presenting in old age.
Mental health and drugs: a drug worker's guide to working with service users who have a mental illness
- Author:
- VOSE Colin
- Publisher:
- HIT
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 40p.
- Place of publication:
- Liverpool
This book is for practitioners who work in drug and alcohol services or other settings such as health, social care and criminal justice. It gives an overview of the link between drug misuse and mental health. The booklet covers the following topics: mental health problems; commonly prescribed medication for mental health; mental health services - what do they do?; drug use and mental health - dual diagnosis; roles of the drug worker - responding to drugs and mental health issues; and summaries of mental health law, standards and guidance.
Just one per cent: the experiences of people using mental health services
- Authors:
- UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA, RETHINK
- Publisher:
- Rethink
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 7p.
- Place of publication:
- Kingston upon Thames
Rethink regularly carries out social survey research to monitor expert opinion on standards of mental health care. The recent Our Point of View survey, upon which this report is based, asked are things getting better for the people who use mental health services, their families and friends at the beginning of the 21st Century in Britain? This report looks at what service users want in order to feel fully represented.
Mix 'n' match?
- Author:
- JOHNSTONE Lucy
- Journal article citation:
- Openmind, 110, July 2001, p.16.
- Publisher:
- MIND
Argues that the National Service Framework does not do enough to challenge a biomedical view of mental ill-health.
The hidden costs of mental health
- Author:
- MIND
- Publisher:
- MIND
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 33p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- London
The report is largely based on a survey of people with mental health problems in Mind’s networks. It was designed to find out what types of care and treatment people with mental health problems did and didn’t get prescribed on the NHS, how much people were paying, and the affect that this was having on their lives. Almost one in five people who paid for un-prescribed care and treatment were spending more than £100 a month for treatment they felt they needed. And out of the 58 per cent who’d said they had missed out, 70 per cent felt the lack of treatment had hampered their recovery or ability to cope. Where care or treatment was prescribed by doctors, 45 per cent paid an average £37 a month (mostly for medication, complementary therapies, and counselling/therapy). 51 per cent of people paid an average £61 a month for un-prescribed care and treatment (mostly for complementary therapies and counselling/therapy). Despite a commitment from the Government in its national service framework four years ago to make mental health a priority, this report shows that people with mental health problems are not given equal status on the NHS and are often forced to foot the bill for their own treatment.
Meeting of minds: best practice case studies in mental health services
- Author:
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MENTAL HEALTH
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 46p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Contains examples of best practice of partnership working in the implementation of mental health policy. The establishment of the National Institute for Mental Health presents an opportunity to reshape services and practice in line with the evidence base. The 'Meeting of minds' project represents some of the wide range of joint NHS and industry initiatives that have been developed through the foresight of those working in mental health.
Assertive outreach: a step backwards
- Authors:
- SMITH Mike, ALLOTT Piers, KOBERSTIEN Jen
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 28.7.99, 1999, pp.46-47.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Assertive outreach will form the backbone of forthcoming national service framework on supporting people with mental health problems in the community. The authors discuss the limitations and dangers in this approach.