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Adapting services for a changing society
— a reintegrative model for old age psychiatry (based on a model proposed by Knight and Emanuel, 2007) | | Author(s) | Martin Blanchard, Marc Serfaty, Stephane Duckett |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 24, no 2, February 2009 |
| Pages | pp 202-206 |
| Source | http://www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/gps |
| Keywords | Psychiatric treatment ; Theory. |
| Annotation | Most psychiatric services use a Recovery Model; but that model is not entirely relevant to older people with mental health problems who have lost a life-long spouse, or have no living family, or have developed life-threatening, disabling diseases. The reference in the title is to 'Processes of adjustment to end-of-life losses: a reintegration model', by Sara J Knight and Linda Emanual (Journal of Palliative Medicine, vol 10, pp 1190-1198), in which those authors discussed their model and its implications for the dying person, caregivers, and the palliative care team. The present article considers three main processes that are central to understanding this adjustment process: comprehension of loss, creative adaptation, and reintegration. Its authors suggest that the reintegration model may also help those working directly with older patients on medical wards to come to terms with the often irreversible nature of their health problems. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-090421211 A |
| Classmark | LP: 4D |
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