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Availability of mental health services for older adults
— a cross-cultural comparison of the United States and Turkey | | Author(s) | R Sivis, C S McCrae, A Demir |
| Journal title | Aging & Mental Health, vol 9, no 3, May 2005 |
| Pages | pp 223-234 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Psychiatric treatment ; Qualitative Studies ; Cross cultural surveys ; United States of America ; Turkey. |
| Annotation | Researchers conducted a cross-cultural study using qualitative methods (based on a phenomenological approach) to explore the availability of mental health services (MHS) for older adults in the United States and Turkey. Using purposive sampling, semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with 24 administrators from a wide range of sites (nursing homes, hospices, senior centres) in a rural area of North Carolina and Florida in the US, and Ankara in Turkey. Interview questions focused on types of staff employed, integration of MHS with other services provided, community promotion of service coordination, cooperation and communication with other service providers, and administrators' perceptions of barriers in the provision of MHS for older people. Interestingly, employing on-site mental health staff was a much more popular practice in Turkey, compared to the US, with three times as many Turkish sites having on-site mental health professionals. As anticipated, administrators in both countries cited inadequate funding as the most common barrier to MHS provision. Potential solutions to MHS barriers in both countries are discussed. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-050610207 A |
| Classmark | LP: 3DP: 3KA: 7T: 7GB |
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