Evidence-Based Behavioral Health Practices for Older Adults: A Guide to Implementation

✍ Scribed by Sue E. Levkoff, Hongtu Chen, Jane Fisher, John McIntyre

• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 256
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Improve Service Delivery with New Evidence-Based Guidelines Geared to improve service delivery in the care of older adults, this new and more authoritative approach to practice and management is supported by the latest evidence-based guidelines from the leading experts in the field. For the first time, behavioral health care providers can gain access to a more reliable source for implementing and improving service delivery protocols and practices. This new guide applies evidence-based criteria to the following patient care and management needs to help you: Select an Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Assess Feasibility Manage Quality Create a Culturally Grounded Practice Assess and Treat Depression, Anxiety, and Substance Use Disorders Assess and Treat Dementia and Schizophrenia Review by Service Delivery Process Review within Special Settings Create More Sustainable Services Written primarily for program administrators and clinical supervisors, health care professionals in mental health and geriatric services, and teachers and students in the field of geriatric health care, much of the timely information contained in this book can be used as a reference for evidence-based geriatric behavioral health by people who work with elderly clients with mental health needs.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
TOC Contents......Page 5
Contributors......Page 9
Foreword......Page 11
Acknowledgments......Page 13
Introduction......Page 15
CH CHAPTER 1 Selecting an Evidence-Based Practice......Page 21
Step 2: Researching EBPs......Page 23
Step 3: Deciding on the EBP......Page 29
Step 4: Determining What to Do if No EBP Exists......Page 33
Assessing Readiness......Page 37
Measuring Organizational Readiness: A Review of the Literature......Page 38
Assessing Organizational Climate for EBPs......Page 41
Assessing Costs as the Bottom Line......Page 42
Modifying and Implementing an Identified EBP......Page 47
Maintaining Awareness of New EBPs......Page 52
CH CHAPTER 3 Quality Management in Evidence-Based Service Programs......Page 57
Administrative Strategies for Quality Management......Page 58
Evaluation Strategies for Quality Management......Page 76
Discussion......Page 83
The Conceptual Base......Page 87
Program Experiences and Outcomes: Applying the CG EBP Framework......Page 95
Implementation, Documentation, Measurement, and Outcome Issues......Page 104
Lessons Learned and the Distance Yet to Go......Page 111
Depression in Older Adults......Page 119
Anxiety in Older Adults......Page 128
Substance Use Disorders in Older Adults......Page 138
Dementia......Page 155
Schizophrenia in Late Life......Page 166
CH CHAPTER 7 Evidence-Based Practices by Service Delivery Process......Page 179
Screening and Assessment......Page 180
Treatment......Page 184
Prevention and Outreach......Page 192
Discussion and Conclusions......Page 194
Faith-Based Organizations......Page 199
Primary Care......Page 201
Extended Care Settings......Page 212
Services to Older Adults in Rural Communities......Page 217
Should a Program Be Sustained?......Page 229
What Makes Change More Likely to Be Sustained?......Page 230
Defining Sustainability......Page 231
Implications of the Literature......Page 233
From Implementing to Sustaining a Program......Page 235
Efforts to Sustain the Kajsiab House Project......Page 237
Tips for Creating a Program That Is Sustainable......Page 241
One Last View of Sustainability......Page 243
Epilogue......Page 244
IDX Index......Page 245