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Assessing the mental health needs of older people
— systematic review on the use of standardised measures to improve assessment practice | | Author(s) | Jo Moriarty |
| Corporate Author | Social Care Workforce Research Unit, King's College London |
| Publisher | Social Care Workforce Research Unit, King's College London, London, November 2002 |
| Pages | 115 pp |
| Source | http://maple.cc.kcl.ac.uk/ps/ipi_scwru/web/redist/... Also available as hard copy from: Janet Robinson, Unit Administrator, Social Care Workforce Research Unit, King's College London, Franklin Wilkins Building, 150
Stamford Street, London SE1 9NH. |
| Keywords | Psychiatric treatment ; Needs [elderly] ; Evaluation ; Standards of provision ; Literature reviews. |
| Annotation | The introduction of the Single Assessment Process (SAP) highlights the importance of summarising current knowledge in the use of standardised measures to improve the identification of mental health problems in older people and their carers, as in Standard Seven of the National Service Framework for Older People (NSF). This review presents evidence on the use of such standardised tools and scales, and is primarily aimed at supporting the assessment practice of social workers and staff in community and long-term settings with no professional background in mental health. It outlines some of the reasons for using standardised measures and the criteria for selecting between different measures. It provides information on different mental health problems and the screening measures available to assist in their identification. It covers the assessment of carers' needs, and looks at the wider assessment context. The review cites 199 articles, books and reports, which are presented as tables of useful sources by topic or name of measure. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-050425001 E |
| Classmark | LP: IK: 4C: 583: 64A |
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