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How to help depressed older people living in residential care
— a multifaceted shared-care intervention for late-life depression | | Author(s) | Robert H Llewellyn-Jones, Karen A Baikie, Sally Castell |
| Journal title | International Psychogeriatrics, vol 13, no 4, 2001 |
| Pages | pp 477-492 |
| Keywords | Depression ; Therapeutics ; Residents [care homes] ; Care homes ; Sheltered housing ; Interaction [welfare services] ; Coordination ; Australia. |
| Annotation | The intervention was implemented for the entire non-nursing home population (1,466 residents in independent and assisted living) of a large continuing care retirement community in Sydney, Australia providing three levels of care. Of the 1,036 who were eligible and agreed to be interviewed, 281 (27.1%) were classified as depressed according to the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS). The intervention included: multidisciplinary collaboration between primary care physicians, facility health care providers, and the local psychogeriatric service; training for primary care physicians and other facility healthcare providers about detecting and managing depression; and depression-related health education/promotion programmes for residents. The intervention was widely accepted by residents and their healthcare providers, and was sustained and advanced by the facility after the completion of the study. It is possible to implement and sustain a multifaceted shared-care intervention for late-life depression in a residential care facility, where local psychogeriatric services are scarce, staff-to-resident ratios are low, and the needs of depressed residents are substantial. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020524206 A |
| Classmark | ENR: LL: KX: KW: KLA: QK6: QAJ: 7YA |
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