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| What becomes of people with dementia referred to community psychogeriatric teams? | | Author(s) | Susan Bedford, David Melzer, Tom Dening, Claire Lawton |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 11, no 12, December 1996 |
| Pages | pp 1051-1056 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Psychogeriatric units ; Community work ; Referrals ; Rural areas ; Urban areas ; Longitudinal surveys ; Cambridgeshire. |
| Annotation | This study monitored processes and outcomes in joint health and social services community psychogeriatric teams - two rural and two urban - in Cambridge, collecting data on new referrals, with and without dementia. Rates of referral to urban teams were double rural rates. Around 40% of the dementia group had a social worker assessor and keyworker; this group was significantly more dependent, received more informal and formal care, and unmet needs relating to residential care and carer respite were more common. After 6 months, only 54% of the dementia group were alive and living outside institutional care, compared to 79% of the functionally ill group. Unplanned admissions to hospital were rarely judged avoidable by keyworkers. Evidence of geographical inequity and identification of unmet needs provided an important contribution to local policy development. Further work is needed on validity of keyworker assessment of carer stress. |
| Accession Number | CPA-970421023 A |
| Classmark | EA: LDM: IGC: L5R: RL: RK: 3J: 8C |
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