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Title Mental health and later life : delivering an holistic model for practice / edited by John Keady and Sue Watts
Published Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 200 pages) : illustrations
Contents Between participation and practice : inclusive user involvement and the role of practitioners / Richard Ward, with contributions from the Scottish Dementia Working Group, Lindsay River -- Social care approaches / Jill Manthorpe -- Mental health promotion in later life / Ann Crosland, Annie Wallace -- Anxiety and depression in older people / Georgina Charlesworth, Janet Carter -- Ageing and psychosis / Susan Mary Benbow, [and others] -- Alcohol and dual diagnosis in older people / Rahul (Tony) Rao, Rachael Buxey, Kadiatu (Kadia) Jalloh -- Memory services : psychological distress, co-morbidity and the need for flexible working : the reality of later life mental health care / Sue Watts, [and others] -- The Croydon memory service : using generic working to create efficiency, job satisfaction and satisfied customers / Rosalind Willis, [and others] -- Dementia : complex case work / Karin Terri Smith, Lorna Mackenzie -- Later life liaison services : delivering holistic care in a general hospital setting / Helen Pratt, Lorraine Burgess -- Psychological interventions for complex and enduring mood disorders in older people : struggling with a lifetime of depression / Stephen Davies -- Key messages in later life mental health care : new directions and new ambitions / John Keady, Sue Watts
Summary The mental health needs of older people are all too often overlooked or put down to the inevitable effects of old age. This textbook will make it much easier for health professionals to identify, treat and support the needs of this vulnerable group
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Older people -- Mental health services.
Geriatric psychiatry.
Mental health.
Older people.
Mental illness -- Treatment.
Mental health services.
Mental Health
Aged, 80 and over
Aged
Health Services for the Aged
Mental Disorders -- therapy
Mental Health Services
mental health.
elderly.
MEDICAL -- Geriatrics.
MEDICAL -- Nursing -- Gerontology.
Older people
Mental illness -- Treatment
Mental health services
Mental health
Geriatric psychiatry
Older people -- Mental health services
Form Electronic book
Author Keady, John, 1961-
Watts, Sue, 1957-
ISBN 9780203844755
0203844750
9781136922329
1136922326
9781136922220
1136922229
9781136922312
1136922318
1282882589
9781282882584