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Raising the standard: specialist services for older people with mental illness
- Author:
- ROYAL COLLEGE OF PSYCHIATRISTS. Faculty of Old Age Psychiatry
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 46p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
A new report from the Faculty of Old Age Psychiatry, reviews the components of a specialist service for older people with mental illness, including community mental health teams for older people, community/outpatient clinics, provision of psychological therapies and end of life care. Endorsed by Age Concern, The Alzheimer's Society, The British Geriatrics Society, National Older People's Mental Health Programme Care Services Improvement Partnership and The Royal College of Nursing, the report makes two key recommendations in the report relate to ageism and discrimination on the basis of mental illness. They include: . ageist neglect of older people with mental illness must stop. Service expansion in specialist general and community psychiatry services should be matched by a similar funding increase for older people . discrimination against people on the basis of mental illness should not occur. Examples include the exclusion of older people with mental illness from intermediate care services, chronic disease management and choice initiatives.
Who cares wins: improving the outcome for older people admitted to the general hospital: guidelines for the development of liaison mental health services for older people
- Author:
- ROYAL COLLEGE OF PSYCHIATRISTS. Faculty of Old Age Psychiatry
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Place of publication:
- London
This report draws attention to the neglected clinical problem of mental disorder affecting older people admitted to general hospitals and calls for the development of specialist liaison mental health services for older people. It takes account of the best level of evidence where it applies to older people. Older people occupy two-thirds of NHS beds and 60% of older people admitted to general hospital will have or develop a mental disorder. This mental disorder will predict a poor outcome for the older person and the service. The present delivery of mental health services for older people in general hospitals is by the process of consultation. The superior method of multidisciplinary liaison is established for working age adults as a developed speciality. This approach should be established for older people and a failure to do so represents an ageist policy. Better management of these disorders improves outcome and this has major implications for the care of older people, the efficiency of acute hospitals and the utilisation of health and social care resources.