## Background: Despite a consensus on the need to expand and improve mental health care for older people, evidence on models of service development is limited. ## Objective: Referring to two case studies, this paper considers how evaluation of service innovations can inform policy and practice.
Mental health services for older people
โ Scribed by The Lancet
- Book ID
- 117305713
- Publisher
- The Lancet
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 77 KB
- Volume
- 374
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0140-6736
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
## Objectives: To examine, using the published literature and local service experience, the contributions that carers can make to the development and evaluation of specialist mental health services for the elderly. ## Methods: Medline search for relevant papers about carers and the elderly, espec
## 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 ## Background A clinical indicator should demonstrate clinically meaningful change, be relevant, allow comparisons between services, be acceptable to clinicians, and have acceptable validity, reliability and sensitivity to change. The HoNOS 65+ has been suggested as a clinical outcome