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Care management and the care programme approach
— towards integration in old age mental health services | | Author(s) | Jane Hughes, Karen Stewart, David Challis |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 16, no 3, March 2001 |
| Pages | pp 266-272 |
| Keywords | Mental disorder ; Dementia ; Management [care] ; Psychiatric treatment ; Coordination ; Interaction [welfare services]. |
| Annotation | This study of social service departments (SSDs) funded by the Department of Health (DH) provides the first national data on the extent to which the Care Programme Approach (CPA) and care management are integrated for older people with mental health problems, particularly dementia. As such it illustrates the relationship between mental health services for older people and SSDs. The study shows that the application of this approach is patchy. Moreover, when applied, it often represents a duplication of approach with care management arrangements. Geographical variation in the extent to which the two approaches are integrated is apparent. For example, the London boroughs have more specialised care arrangements than other authorities, and exhibit a higher degree of service integration. Less than half of authorities provided a specialist dementia service in conjunction with health trusts. Whilst legislation now facilitates such developments, a clearly identified target population is presupposed. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010406202 A |
| Classmark | E: EA: QA: LP: QAJ: QK6 |
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