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| Mental health care for elderly people | | Author(s) | Ian J Norman, Sally J Redfern |
| Publisher | Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh, 1997 |
| Pages | 584 pp |
| Source | Pearson Professional Ltd., Southport Distribution Centre, Slaidburn Crescent, Southport, Merseyside, PR9 9YF. |
| Keywords | Mental disorder ; Mental health [elderly] ; Mental ageing ; Therapy ; Organisation of care. |
| Annotation | This book reflects the multi-disciplinary and multi-professional nature of mental health care services for older people. It examines the demographic, psychosocial and biological approaches to normal ageing. Mental health problems in later life - learning disability, anxiety, depression and mania, suicide, confusion (delirium), dementia, schizophrenia, and the experiences of carers - are covered. A third section considers therapeutic interventions: counselling; speech and language therapy; reducing challenging behaviour; cognitive therapy; reality orientation (RO); validation therapy; reminiscence; and pharmacological treatments and electroconvulsive therapy (ETC). The issues involved in developing and providing services are considered: supporting elderly people and informal carers at home; supporting paid carers; long-stay residential care; and legal and ethical issues of mental health care. |
| Accession Number | CPA-970605209 B |
| Classmark | E: D: D6: LO: P |
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