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Asian elders accessing mental health services
- Author:
- BHUHI Jatinder
- Publisher:
- ASRA
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 34p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Coventry
Research study focusing on older Asian people with mental health problems and their use of services.
Alzheimer's Disease and carers
- Author:
- MASON Simon
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 22.11.95, 1995, pp.29-31.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Draws on the author's experience of placement in mental health centres in North Lincolnshire. Focuses on the nature of the relationship between the older person with dementia and those who care for them - nurses and relatives.
Dementia known to mental health services: first findings of a case register for a defined elderly population
- Authors:
- HOLMES Clive, COOPER Brian, LEVY Raymond
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 10(10), October 1995, pp.875-881.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The aims and methodology of the population-based Camberwell Dementia Case Register are described. Data collection during the first 18 months of the Register's operation have been used to check the reliability of clinical diagnosis as assessed on the one hand by standardized interview and test procedures and on the other hand from available hospital records; further, to examine the predictive validity of a 'consensus' diagnosis by comparison with the neuropathological findings in deceased patients.
Needs assessment in old age psychiatry: a need for standardization
- Authors:
- HAMID W.A., HOWARD R., SILVERMAN M.
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 10(7), July 1995, pp.533-540.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Need assessment is an important component in planning, prioritising and evaluating care provision. Old age psychiatry is an expanding community-based speciality. It is important for community mental health services to be needs-led since this ensures better targeting of the limited resources. There is an opportunity for the developing of a needs assessment method that is standardized on old age psychiatry patients and measures need for the range of interventions offered by old age psychiatry services.
A prospective study in three psychogeriatric day hospitals using administrative interventions to improve non-attendance
- Authors:
- WRIGHT Barry D., et al
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 10(1), January 1995, pp.55-61.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Reports a survey and a subsequent prospective intervention study. The survey was conducted in two psychogeriatric day hospitals to establish the extent of day-by-day non-attendance. In 1991, 23% of allocated places were not taken up and the reasons for 98% of these episodes are reported. Little attention has been paid to non-attendance rates in the literature. Their importance is discussed. The prospective intervention study was then conducted using information from the survey year. Administrative interventions, which sought to raise the awareness of patient non-attendance within the multidisciplinary team, were put into place in the two day hospitals. Non-attendance rates in a third day hospital, where no intervention was made, were used for comparative purposes. After a second year, non-attendance in the day hospital with no interventions had fallen by 3%. The other two had each reduced non-attendance rates by 18%. These reductions have clinical relevance, representing 380 patient days over the whole year in the two day hospitals.
The impact of home assessment on depression in the elderly: a clinical trial
- Authors:
- COLE Martin G., et al
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 10(1), January 1995, pp.19-23.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Reports on a clinical trial to determine if home assessment was more effective than clinic assessment in eliciting useful clinical information and in reducing depression, anxiety, functional disability and social isolation among elderly depressed patients referred to an outpatient clinic. The trial failed to prove that home assessment improved the assessment or the outcome of the elderly patients in this sample.
Mental health: a technical document produced by the Health Gain Panel of Review
- Authors:
- FARMER Anne, chair
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Welsh Office. NHS Directorate. Welsh Health Planning Forum
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 520p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
Set of papers compiled by the Health Gain Panel of Review with the aim of improving the provision of services to people with mental health problems in Wales. Includes sections on: the epidemiology of mental illness; promoting mental health; mixed anxiety depressive syndrome; depression; bipolar affective disorders; schizophrenia; dementia; personality disorders; suicide and parasuicide; eating disorders; child and adolescent mental health; older people with mental health problems; homelessness and mental health; and therapies.
Interprofessional issues in community and primary health care
- Editors:
- OWENS Patricia, CARRIER John, HORDER John
- Publisher:
- Macmillan
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 251p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Explores the issues surrounding interprofessional relationships, the implications for service development, importance for patients, users and carers, and relevance to education for health and social care for the 21st century. Sets interprofessional collaboration within a historical, economic and organisational framework.
Emerging issues in mental health and aging
- Editor:
- GATZ Margaret
- Publisher:
- American Psychological Association
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 399p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Washington, DC
Includes papers on: an historical and current perspective on mental health policy and older Americans; efficacy of clinical treatment for mental disorders among older people; strengths and limitations of research on late life psychoses; stressors and adaptation in later life; importance of self-perceptions for health status among older people; prevention and early intervention; interventions to enhance and maintain mental health in later life; family involvement; models for mental health service delivery to older adults; education and training of mental health service providers; and policy elements.