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Interdisciplinary working in mental health
- Author:
- BAILEY Di
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 256p.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
This book presents a model for interdisciplinary working, and offers an overview of practice and policy across a range of mental health settings. It explores how to combine skills, theories and expertise from a range of disciplines in response to the diverse needs of service users, from children to older people, and those with complex needs. Chapters include: the evolution of interdisciplinary working: definitions and policy context; models and values for interdisciplinary working in mental health; interdisciplinary working and the mental health legislation; interdisciplinary care planning in mental health; interdisciplinary risk assessment planning and management; involving people who use services in interdisciplinary working in mental health; interdisciplinary working with people with mental health problems in primary care; interdisciplinary working with children and young people with mental health problems; interdisciplinary working with older adults with mental health needs; interdisciplinary working with individuals with complex needs; interdisciplinary education and training; and managing interdisciplinary working and practice in mental health.
Integrating mental health services for older people in England - from rhetoric to reality
- Authors:
- TUCKER Sue, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Interprofessional Care, 23(4), July 2009, pp.341-354.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The provision of integrated, person-centred care is particularly important for older people with mental health problems. Nevertheless, a series of reports at the end of the last century highlighted unacceptable differences in collaborative working practices in England, variations that a national service framework specifically aimed to address. This study utilised a cross-sectional survey of old age psychiatrists to explore the extent to which, some three years after the publication of this guidance, structures to deliver integrated care across the interfaces between specialist old age mental health and primary, acute and social care services were in place. Three hundred and eighteen (72%) consultants responded. Measures to facilitate integrated practice were generally poorly developed: many areas missed targets to agree protocols for the management of older people with mental health problems with primary care; more than 45% of respondents reported the presence of fewer than two of four indicators of integration with the acute sector; and approaching 30% of respondents reported the presence of fewer than four of 13 markers of integration with social care. The implications of these findings and the challenges inherent in providing integrated care for this client group are discussed.
Integrated specialty mental health care among older minorities improves access but not outcomes: results of the PRISMe study
- Authors:
- AREAN Patricia A., et al
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 23(10), October 2008, pp.1086-1092.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
In this secondary data analysis of Primary Care Research in Substance Abuse and Mental Health for the Elderly (PRIMSe) study, the authors hypothesized that older minorities who receive mental health services integrated in primary care settings would have greater service use and better mental health outcomes than older minorities referred to community services. The authors identified 2,022 (48% minorities) primary care patients in the US of 65 years and older, who met study inclusion criteria and had either alcohol misuse, depression, and/or anxiety. They were randomized to receive treatment for these disorders in the primary care clinic or to a brokerage case management model that linked patients to community-based services. Service use and clinical outcomes were collected at baseline, three months and six months post randomization on all participants. Access to and participation in mental health /substance abuse services was greater in the integrated model than in referral; there were no treatment by ethnicity effects. There were no treatment effects for any of the clinical outcomes; Whites and older minorities in both integrated and referral groups failed to show clinically significant improvement in symptoms and physical functioning at 6 months. While providing services in primary care results in better access to and use of these services, accessing these services is not enough for assuring adequate clinical outcomes.
Take your partners
- Author:
- DAVIS Rowenna
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 10.04.08, 2008, pp.14-16.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The Excellence Network is Community Care's new honours programme which recognises innovative practice. This article profiles six teams that judges felt demonstrated excellence in partnership working. The teams are: The Bridge Substance Misuse Service in Birmingham; Gateway in Poole, which aims to bridge the gap between social and mental health services; East Cambridgeshire Children's Team; Aberdeenshire Autism Service; the Reprovisioning Project Team in Melrose, Scotland which developed a new community based service to meet the needs of former nursing home residents with physical and complex disabilities; and the Meadows Centre for Excellence which joins social care rehabilitation, primary care trust intermediate care and voluntary sector services to provide seamless support for people over 50 in Stoke on Trent.
Your rights to health care
- Author:
- EASTERBROOK Lorna
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 296p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This book provides information about the main entitlements to health care for older people, particularly NHS services provided in England. Chapters include: knowing your rights; asking for and getting help; GPs and primary care services; opticians and eyesight; hearing services; therapies and other support; mental health; going in to hospital; coming out of hospital; organ and blood donation; death and dying; and making complaints.
Compliance with mental health and other specialty care referrals among Medicare/Mediaid dual enrollees
- Author:
- MOHTABAI Ramin
- Journal article citation:
- Community Mental Health Journal, 41(3), June 2005, pp.339-344.
- Publisher:
- Springer
This America study examines and compares non-compliance with mental health and other specialty referrals among low-income elderly. A survey of 2,128 community-dwelling elderly assessed mental health and other specialty referral in the past year and compliance with these referrals. Non-compliant participants and those who had encountered difficulties in arranging referral appointments were asked about the barriers. Results found 16.7 percent with mental health referrals vs. 4.8 percent with other specialty referrals did not comply. The main reason for non-compliance with mental health referrals was lack of perceived need.
Community statistics: 1 April 2000 - 31 March 2001
- Author:
- NORTHERN IRELAND. Department of Health and Social Studies
- Publisher:
- Northern Ireland. Department of Health and Social Services
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 105p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- Belfast
Contents: all programmes of care; family and child care; mental health; learning disability; physical and sensory disability; health promotion and disease prevention; primary health and adult community care.
Forget me not: mental health services for older people
- Authors:
- BENBOW Susan M., LENNON Sean P.
- Journal article citation:
- Psychiatric Bulletin, 24(11), November 2000, pp.403-404.
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
The exclusion of services for older people from the Mental Health National Service Framework and the delays in publication of the National Service Framework for the elderly have caused many old age psychiatrists to be concerned. The recent Audit Commission report, entitled 'Forget Me Not: Mental Health Services for Older People', gives us much encouragement that the needs of older adults have not been forgotten.
Social policy review 10
- Editors:
- BRUNSDON Edward, HARTLEY Dean, WOODS Roberta
- Publisher:
- Social Policy Association
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 304.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Collection of essays on social policy divided into two sections: developments in British welfare under New Labour; and international developments.
Depression among older people living in care homes: collaborative approaches to treatment
- Authors:
- ROYAL COLLEGE OF PSYCHIATRISTS, BRITISH GERIATRICS SOCIETY
- Publishers:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists, British Geriatrics Society
- Publication year:
- 2018
- Pagination:
- 28
- Place of publication:
- London
Showcases good practice examples of effective interdisciplinary collaboration between geriatricians, allied health professionals, and psychiatrists who are working with older people with depression living care homes. It identifies key features from the case studies and highlights the importance of addressing the divide between mental and physical healthcare in order to provide the best care for older people living with frailty. Key themes from the case studies included person-centred care; the use of Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment and multidisciplinary working; professional development and training; and voluntary and community sector involvement. The eight examples are from: Gateshead Care Home Initiative, Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust’s care home liaison service, Tri-borough in-reach service for care homes in South London, multi-disciplinary care home and community liaison model in Dorset; University Hospital of South Manchester Nursing Home Service; the Integrated care pilot Nazareth House, West London Mental Health Trust. The report aims to promote awareness and understanding of the key features of best practice among practitioners, commissioners and policy-makers. (Edited publisher abstract)