Expanded opportunities for mental health care in long-term care settings.

2016 ◽  
pp. 127-155
Author(s):  
Kelly O'Shea Carney ◽  
Margaret P. Norris
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
Term Care

scholarly journals Position Statement for Mental Health Care in Long-Term Care During COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 367-372
Author(s):  
Claire Checkland ◽  
Sophiya Benjamin ◽  
Marie-Andrée Bruneau ◽  
Antonia Cappella ◽  
Beverley Cassidy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
Systems Of Care ◽  
Position Statement ◽  
Mental Health Needs ◽  
Term Care

COVID-19 has disproportionately impacted older adults in long-term care (LTC) facilities in Canada. There are opportunities to learn from this crisis and to improve systems of care in order to ensure that older adults in LTC enjoy their right to the highest attainable standard of health. Measures are needed to ensure the mental health of older adults in LTC during COVID-19. The Canadian Academy of Geriatric Psychiatry (CAGP) and Canadian Coalition for Seniors’ Mental Health (CCSMH) have developed the following position statements to address the mental health needs of older adults in LTC facilities, their family members, and LTC staff. We outlined eight key considerations related to mental health care in LTC during COVID-19 to optimize the mental health of this vulnerable population during the pandemic. 

scholarly journals MEDICAL FOSTER HOMES: PERSONALIZED LONG-TERM CARE FOR VETERANS WITH MENTAL HEALTH CARE NEEDS

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (suppl_1) ◽  
pp. 1351-1351
Author(s):  
L.M. Haverhals ◽  
C. Levy ◽  
C. Manheim ◽  
C. Gilman ◽  
T.E. Edes
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
Health Care Needs ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Foster Homes

scholarly journals ‘Restoring the person's life’: a qualitative study to inform development of care for people with severe mental disorders in rural Ethiopia

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Mall ◽  
M. Hailemariam ◽  
M. Selamu ◽  
A. Fekadu ◽  
C. Lund ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Severe Mental Disorders ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Rural Ethiopia

Aims.In low-income countries, care for people with severe mental disorders (SMDs) who manage to access treatment is usually emergency-based, intermittent or narrowly biomedical. The aim of this study was to inform development of a scalable district-level mental health care plan to meet the long-term care needs of people with SMD in rural Ethiopia.Methods.The present study was carried out as formative work for the Programme for Improving Mental health CarE which seeks to develop, implement and evaluate a district level model of integrating mental health care into primary care. Six focus group discussions and 25 in-depth interviews were conducted with service planners, primary care providers, traditional and religious healers, mental health service users, caregivers and community representatives. Framework analysis was used, with findings mapped onto the domains of the Innovative Care for Chronic Conditions (ICCC) framework.Results.Three main themes were identified. (1) Focused on ‘Restoring the person's life’, including the need for interventions to address basic needs for food, shelter and livelihoods, as well as spiritual recovery and reintegration into society. All respondents considered this to be important, but service users gave particular emphasis to this aspect of care. (2) Engaging with families, addressed the essential role of families, their need for practical and emotional support, and the importance of equipping families to provide a therapeutic environment. (3) Delivering collaborative, long-term care, focused on enhancing accessibility to biomedical mental health care, utilising community-based health workers and volunteers as an untapped resource to support adherence and engagement with services, learning from experience of service models for chronic communicable diseases (HIV and tuberculosis) and integrating the role of traditional and religious healers alongside biomedical care. Biomedical approaches were more strongly endorsed by health workers, with traditional healers, religious leaders and service users more inclined to see medication as but one component of care. The salience of poverty to service planning was cross-cutting.Conclusions.Stakeholders prioritised interventions to meet basic needs for survival and endorsed a multi-faceted approach to promoting recovery from SMD, including social recovery. However, sole reliance on this over-stretched community to mobilise the necessary resources may not be feasible. An adapted form of the ICCC framework appeared highly applicable to planning an acceptable, feasible and sustainable model of care.

scholarly journals GOOD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING: ESSENTIAL TO ACHIEVING SDGS

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S76-S76
Author(s):  
Hans Stohrer
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Palliative Care ◽  
Older Persons ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
Good Health ◽  
Functional Health ◽  
Term Care

Abstract The importance of good health for older persons is a human right, good public policy, and practical. We argue that it is fundamental to achieving the UNs SDGs. Older people can be important assets in the achievement of SDGs but need to be in good health so as to be valuable, productive and contributing members of society. This includes functional health, cognitive health and capacity, mental health, sustainable long term care for non-communicable diseases, and quality palliative care provided in the home at the end of life. This means not only access to health care services and access to safe and effective medicines and vaccines, but also access to rehabilitation and physical therapy, mental health care, long term care, and hospice and palliative care. In conclusion, to achieve the United Nations SDG on Health, it is important to consider explicitly the health of older persons, including the public policy needs.

scholarly journals The role of long term care centers in the Polish system of mental health care

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-40
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Siejko ◽  
Aneta Tylec ◽  
Halina Dubas-Ślemp ◽  
Piotr Książek ◽  
Bartłomiej Drop ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Community Care ◽  
Care Center ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Health Care Center

Abstract Objective: The aim of this work is to review the role of mental health care center and treatment center specialized in psychiatry in the Polish system of mental health care as a whole. Review: For many years in Poland, the process of transformation of psychiatric care model from the institutional (inpatient setting, most expensive) to community care model (personalized, much cheaper), has been taking place. The effective - coordinated system of community care should significantly improve cooperation in the treatment, while the community forms of health care should ensure full availability, complexity, and continuity of care provision. In many cases, the community support is inadequate and cannot provide patient with care at his home environment. For mentally ill, there may be a need for the use of the long term health care centers specialized in psychiatry. Conclusions: A long term mental health care center specialised in mental health plays an important role in long-term care for the mentally ill. As far as a mental health service user’s perspective is concerned, the continuity of care and treatment in the long term health care center (as a health care unit) appears to be more useful and satisfying compared to a residential home for people with chronic mental illnesses. There is a need for broad discussion on the special place of the long term health care center specialized in psychiatry in the present Polish system of mental health care and on the improving of care pathways between inpatient-, day care-and, community care package.

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