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Losing time: developing mental health services for older people in Wales
- Author:
- AUDIT COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Audit Commission
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 42p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The quality of mental health services for older people in Wales varies greatly depending on where they live, and there are severe shortages of specialist care when they can no longer be supported at home. Carers are generally well supported but their needs should be assessed more consistently and staff in residential homes need better training. Report highlights over 30 examples of good practice, but says that this needs to be shared more widely. Calls for more partnership working between health and social care and the introduction of defined minimum standards.