State funded continuing care for the elderly mentally ill: a legal and ethical solution?

Four papers were available for discussion at the meeting:(1) ‘Continuing Care Retirement Communities — Attractive to Members, but what about Sponsors?’ by R. A. Humble and D. G. Ryan, was previously presented to the Institute of Actuaries on 26 January 1998, and the paper and the discussion of it appear in British Actuarial Journal, 4, 547-614.(2) ‘A Model for Projecting the Number of People who will Require Long-Term Care’, by R. R. Ainslie, C. O. Daly, S. P. Laurie, B. D. Rickhayzen, M. A. E. Thraves and D. E. P. Walsh; and(3) ‘The Actuarial Modelling of NHS Data’, by C. G. Orros, M. Iqbal, I. W. Lane, I. P. McKeever and M. R. Moliver, were both presented at the 1998 Health Care Conference, held at the University of Warwick. These papers are available in the Faculty and the Institute Libraries.(4) ‘The Elderly and Continuing Care’, by Dr R. G. Smith, Chairman of the Geriatricians Committee of the Royal College of Physicians, commences on the next page.

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Can staff training reduce behavioural problems in residential care for the elderly mentally ill?

International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry ◽

10.1002/(sici)1099-1166(199803)13:3<149::aid-gps746>3.0.co;2-q ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 13 (3) ◽

pp. 149-158 ◽

Cited By ~ 43

Author(s):

Esme Moniz-Cook ◽

Sharon Agar ◽

Miriam Silver ◽

Robert Woods ◽

Michael Wang ◽

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Keyword(s):

Residential Care ◽

Staff Training ◽

Mentally Ill ◽

The Elderly ◽

Behavioural Problems ◽

Care For The Elderly

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Developing true community care for the elderly mentally ill

Psychiatric Bulletin ◽

10.1192/pb.14.8.460 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 14 (8) ◽

pp. 460-461 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

M. T. Malcolm

Keyword(s):

Mentally Ill ◽

Elderly Population ◽

Community Care ◽

Institutional Care ◽

The Elderly ◽

Residential Homes ◽

Care For The Elderly ◽

Starting Point ◽

Elderly Populations ◽

Health Districts

This advice to a traveller could be offered to those moving resources from institutional care of the elderly to true care in the home. While present plans concern the destination and mode of travel, less attention is paid to differences in the starting point. Health districts vary greatly in terms of numbers, movements and placements of their elderly populations. Numerical increases or decreases may be caused by migration of elderly people to traditional seaside retirement areas. A further attraction is the availability of nursing and residential homes in these belts. Such homes tend to multiply in a given area and draw in new residents from other districts leading to a disproportionately elderly population.

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