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| Descriptive study of older adults encountered by crisis intervention team (CIT) law enforcement officers | | Author(s) | Sabrina W Tyuse, Shannon Cooper-Sadlo, Sarah E Underwood |
| Journal title | Journal of Women and Aging, vol 29, no 4, 2017 |
| Publisher | Taylor and Francis, 2017 |
| Pages | pp 281-293 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Mental disorder ; Crisis intervention ; Police ; Accident & emergency depts ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; Qualitative Studies ; Quantitative studies ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Increasingly, older Americans who experience a mental health crisis come to the attention of crisis intervention team (CIT) law enforcement officers. These encounters are due largely to a lack of local mental health care resources. With few options available, individuals call 911 for assistance when an older adult exhibits alarming behaviour. This article provides a profile of older adults encountered by CIT officers, identifies the reasons for the 911 call for assistance, and finds what predictors are associated with outcomes of those encounters. The authors found that these older adults were mostly female, Caucasian, diagnosed with depression, and attempting or threatening suicide. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-180112226 A |
| Classmark | E: IH: TWH: LD6: F: 3DP: 3DQ: 7T |
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