Evaluating mental health services for older people / Jenny Finch ; foreword by Bob Woods.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Finch, Jenny.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Older people--Mental health services.

Older people.

Mental health services--Evaluation.

Mental health services.

Mental Health Services--standards.

Mental Health Services.

Aged.

Geriatric Psychiatry.

Mental Disorders.

Medical Subjects:

Mental Health Services--standards.

Mental Health Services.

Aged.

Geriatric Psychiatry.

Mental Disorders.

Physical Description:

xiii, 212 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; San Francisco : Radcliffe Pub., [2004]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Part I Mental health services for older people in the United Kingdom 1

Chapter 1 Development of services 3

Chapter 2 An integrated approach to services 15

Part II Old age psychiatry as a discipline worldwide 23

Chapter 3 Development of the discipline 25

Part III Europe 27

Chapter 4 Difficulties in transnational comparisons 29

Chapter 5 Transnational comparison studies 31

Chapter 6 Mental health services for older people in individual European countries 34

Part IV The United States of America 43

Chapter 7 The legislative background 45

Chapter 8 Funding: Medicare and Medicaid 48

Chapter 9 State policy and programme development 53

Chapter 10 Development of services 57

Part V Canada 65

Chapter 11 National guidelines for mental health services for older people 67

Chapter 12 Development of services 69

Part VI Australia 71

Chapter 13 The policy background 73

Chapter 14 Development of services 78

Chapter 15 Co-ordination of services 84

Part VII Approaches to evaluating health and social care 87

Chapter 17 Standards 91

Chapter 18 Accreditation 94

Chapter 19 Other external quality improvement mechanisms in Western European countries 105

Chapter 20 Government-led systems for evaluating health and social services in England and Wales 110

Chapter 21 Towards evaluation of mental health services for older people 117

Chapter 22 Comparative analysis of approaches to evaluation 130

Part VIII Developing standards to evaluate mental health services for older people 139

Chapter 23 The method used 141

Chapter 24 Pilot evaluations and reviews of services 148

Part IX Validity 153

Chapter 25 Achieving validity in standards 155

Part X Testing the reliability of standards in use 161

Chapter 26 Reliability 163

Chapter 27 Testing the reliability of the Health Advisory Service standards 168

Part XI What has been learnt and future directions 179

Chapter 28 Assessment of the Health Advisory Service approach 181

Chapter 29 Lessons for the future 184

Chapter 30 Incentives for improving services 187

Chapter 31 Future research: does evaluation improve care? 189.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [191]-199) and index.

ISBN:

185775610X

OCLC:

56643393