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A survey of the provision of psychological treatments to older adults in the NHS
Author(s)	Sandra Evans
Journal title	Psychiatric Bulletin, vol 28, no 11, November 2004
Pages	pp 411-414
Source	http://pb.rcpsych.org
Keywords	Psychiatric treatment ; National Health Service ; Psychiatrists ; Social surveys.
Annotation	A questionnaire was sent to old age psychiatrists to ascertain their experience, views and clinical practice regarding psychological therapies in their services. The provision of psychological treatments of all modalities to older people is widely varied in Britain. The main difficulty seems to be a lack of resources, but it would appear that inexperience with psychological therapies applied to older people is also a factor. Most mental health teams (95%) provide anxiety management therapy, and cognitive behaviour therapy is widely available (76% of teams), but areas such as training and staff supervision appear to be poorly provided. Suggestions are made to increase provision and quality of service within existing resources. Improving services to the standard of the National Service Framework (NSF) would be a bigger challenge. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-041206215 A
Classmark	LP: L4: QT9: 3F
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