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| The use of assessment scales in old age psychiatry services in England and Northern Ireland | | Author(s) | S Reilly, D Challis, A Burns |
| Journal title | Aging & Mental Health, vol 8, no 3, May 2004 |
| Pages | pp 249-255 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Assessment procedures for mental patients ; Psychiatric treatment ; England ; Northern Ireland. |
| Annotation | Implementation of the Single Assessment Process (SAP) in the UK is designed to ensure that more standardised assessment procedures are in place across all agencies, that practice improves, and older people's needs are comprehensively assessed. This study provides a unique picture of the range and prevalence of standardised scales used within old age psychiatry services in England and Northern Ireland, reported by 73% of old age psychiatrists. Most services (64%) used three or more standardised assessment scales (range 1-12). 62 separate instruments were identified. The six most used measures were the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE, 95%), the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS, 52%) and the Clock Drawing (50%), the Clifton Assessment Procedures for the elderly (26%), the Barthel Index (18%), and the Health of the Nations Outcome Scales (HoNOS65+, 18%). Shared documentation, along with other indicators of integration between health and social care were associated with greater use of standardised scales. The provision of a memory clinic was associated with greater use of neuropsychiatric scales and lower levels of use of cognitive scales. These results provide key material for shaping the provision of psychiatric services for older people. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040618211 A |
| Classmark | DA:4C: LP: 82: 9Y |
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