Evaluating Mental Health Services for Older People

Jenny Finch (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

232 Seiten

2004
Radcliffe Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-85775-610-4 (ISBN)

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This book provides a comprehensive account of the current developments in mental health services for older people and describes a robust model for evaluating health and social care to improve these services. Drawing on international experience it provides accounts of the development of mental health services for older people in the UK Europe the USA Canada and Australia. The approaches to evaluating health and social care in these countries are all outlined and a comparative analysis is given. The services currently offered are patchy so there is a pressing need for effective mechanisms to be introduced in order to monitor quality - this book will show you how. Managers and commissioners working within Primary Care Trusts NHS Trusts Strategic Health Authorities geriatricians psychiatrists psychologists and allied health and social care professionals will find this book valuable reading.

Part 1: Mental health services for older people in the United Kingdom; Development of services; An integrated approach to services; Part 2: Old age psychiatry as a discipline worldwide; Development of the discipline; Part 3: Europe; Difficulties in transnational comparisons; Transnational comparison studies; Mental health services for older people in individual European countries; Part 4: The United States of America; The legislative background; Funding: Medicare and Medicaid; State policy and programme development; Development of services; Part 5: Canada; National guidelines for mental health services for older people; Development of services; Part 6: Australia; The policy background; Development of services; Co-ordination of services; Part 7: Approaches to evaluating health and social care; Other external quality improvement mechanisms in western European countries; Government-led systems for evaluating health and social services in England and Wales; Towards evaluation of mental health services for older people; Comparative analysis of approaches to evaluation; Part 8: Developing standards to evaluate mental health services for older people; The method used; Pilot evaluations and reviews of services; Part 9: Validity; Achieving validity in standards; Part 10: Testing the reliability of standards in use; Reliability; Testing the reliability of the health advisory service standards; Part 11: What has been learnt and future directions; Assessment of the health advisory service approach; Lessons for the future; Incentives for improving services; Future research: does evaluation improve care?

Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Geriatrie
ISBN-10	1-85775-610-X / 185775610X
ISBN-13	978-1-85775-610-4 / 9781857756104
Zustand	Neuware