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Patient and carer participation in old age psychiatry in England
— Part I: a systematic perspective of the historical and policy context | | Author(s) | Susan Mary Benbow |
| Journal title | International Psychogeriatrics, vol 24, no 2, February 2012 |
| Pages | pp 175-184 |
| Source | http://www.journals.cambridge.org/ipg |
| Keywords | Informal care ; Psychogeriatric patients ; Participation ; Psychiatric treatment ; England. |
| Annotation | Patient and carer participation in old age psychiatry is less developed than in other areas of mental health. What can we learn about increasing participation in the service from the historical context? The author reviews and relates the historical and policy context of patient and carer participation in the National Health Service (NHS) to the development of old age psychiatry in England and the parallel development of the mental health user movement. She offers a systemic theory as a way of understanding how partnership between healthcare professionals, patients and carers might lead to service evolution. She suggests that such partnership might empower not only patients and carers but also healthcare staff at a time when they are under increasing pressures. Old age psychiatry patients and carers struggle to be heard, but have much to offer to services in partnership with healthcare professionals as partners and allies in service development. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-120813004 A |
| Classmark | P6: LF:E: TMB: LP: 82 |
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