## Abstract ## Background Psychiatric illness is common in older people in general hospitals, but little is known of the service models operating in the UK, or of the views of old age psychiatrists regarding service provision in this area. We set out to determine the range of UK old age psychiatry
Improving mental health care for older people within a general hospital in the UK
โ Scribed by Anthony Harrison; Janet Brandling
- Book ID
- 108975581
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 144 KB
- Volume
- 11
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1441-0745
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## A COMMITMENT TO CHANGE The commitment to developing mental health services away from their traditional institutional base into the community is now widespread and old age psychiatry has been prominent in that process. Recognizing the magnitude of the task in many districts, in 1991 the Departm
## Abstract ## Objective To assess perceived need and adequacy of service provision by old age psychiatrists (OAPs) to older people living in care homes in the UK. ## Methods A postal survey of managers of a stratified random sample of 2638 (14% of 18,698) care homes in the UK caring for older r
## Introduction: There are high levels of co-morbid mental illness amongst older people in general hospitals; this study explored the training needs of general nurses to care for this group. ## Method: Focus groups with general nurses were analysed using framework analysis. ## Findings and concl