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Eligibility criteria for elderly mentally ill continuing care National Health Service patients — are they being met and do they need revision?
Author(s)	Peter Simmons, Barbora Richardson, Eleanor Mullan
Journal title	Age and Ageing, vol 30, no 3, May 2001
Pages	pp 243-250
Keywords	Mental disorder ; Long term patients ; Evaluation ; Psychogeriatric units ; Policy ; Essex ; Hertfordshire ; Wandsworth ; Richmond upon Thames.
Annotation	There are wide variations in local eligibility criteria for National Health Service (NHS) continuing care of infirm older people. Local criteria have little concordance with the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCP) eligibility criteria (Statement on continuing care for older adults with psychiatric disorder, Psychiatric Bulletin, September 1997). Those who fulfilled local eligibility criteria had more disturbed behaviour and psychotic symptoms. This article uses evidence for mentally ill patients from rural, suburban and urban catchment areas in Hertfordshire, West Essex, and the London Boroughs of Wandsworth and Richmond. Comprehensive, unambiguous and appropriate national eligibility criteria for NHS continuing care of older mentally infirm patients should be introduced to reflect clinical needs and minimise inequalities in the system. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-010702505 A
Classmark	E: LF7:4Q: 4C: LDM: QAD: 8ES: 8HT: 82LX: 82LS
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