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CMHTs for older people
— team managers' views surveyed | | Author(s) | Michele Abendstern, Christian Brand, Val Harrington |
| Journal title | Journal of Integrated Care, vol 22, no 5/6, 2014 |
| Publisher | Emerald, 2014 |
| Pages | pp 229-240 |
| Source | www.emeraldinsight.com/jica.htm |
| Keywords | Mental health [elderly] ; Health services ; Psychiatric treatment ; Community care ; Interaction [welfare services] ; Coordination ; Management [care] ; Managers ; Attitude. |
| Annotation | The purpose of this paper was to identify features of community mental health teams (CMHTs) for older people valued by their managers, and those they would most like to change. Content analysis was used to analyse `free text' responses to open questions from a national survey about CMHTs' organisational structures and processes. Responses were sorted into statements which were categorised into content areas and higher level dimensions. Free text information was provided by 376 teams (an 88 per cent response rate). Eight higher level dimensions were identified. One related specifically to integration with social care services, whilst several more included material about other aspects of intra-team integration (e.g. documentation and location). The largest proportion of statements related to staffing and teamwork. Statements about inter-personal and inter-professional issues were largely positive, whilst statements about resources, bureaucracy and integration with social care services typically detailed desired changes. Overall comments suggested that managers supported the idea of integration, wanted to see it develop further and were critical where this was not happening. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-150522265 A |
| Classmark | D: L: LP: PA: QK6: QAJ: QA: T6: DP |
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