scholarly journals The viewpoint of the elderly psychiatric patient

1991 ◽  
Vol 15 (11) ◽  
pp. 664-665
Author(s):  
Margaret M. Semple ◽  
Jane M. McLennan ◽  
Brian R. Ballinger
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Psychiatric Patient ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Care And Treatment ◽  
The Uk

There is now an increasing emphasis on the views of the consumers of health care, but little is known of psychiatric patients' opinions on their care and treatment. This may be due to an assumption that their reports are unreliable. Much of the research in this area has been carried out in the USA, although there have been reports from the UK and elsewhere (Freeman & Kendall, Hansson et al, 1985; Lazare et al, 1975; McIntyre et al, 1989; Weinstein, 1981).

Targeting the Mature Consumer Market

1996 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 90-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. P. Moschis ◽  
D. N. Bellenger ◽  
P. A. Kennett ◽  
L. E. Aab
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Aging Process ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Health Care Industry ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Consumer Market ◽  
Care Industry ◽  
Health Service Providers ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Mature Market

The aging population in the USA makes skill in marketing to the mature consumer increasingly important. The biophysical and psychosocial aging process create a need for specific strategies to address the changes brought on by age. This study attempts to ascertain the degree to which the health service providers recognize some of the needs of the elderly market and the degree to which marketing programs are addressing these needs. A comparison with other industries is also provided. The results indicate that 4 out of 16 strategies directed at the mature market have been used by more than 80% of health care respondents. In addition, there are significant differences between the health care industry and other industries for five of the strategies. All but two of the strategies are thought to be important by more than half of the survey respondents.

scholarly journals Suicide in the elderly

2000 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 102-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Howard Cattell
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Risk Groups ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Green Paper ◽  
Asian Women ◽  
Research Attention ◽  
Contentious Issue ◽  
Severely Mentally Ill ◽  
The Uk

Despite the fact that suicide and its prevention continues to be a priority area for health care in the UK, suicide in the elderly remains a neglected subject receiving little interest and research attention. The Green Paper Our Healthier Nation (Secretary of State for Health, 1998) maintained the concept of setting targets for suicide reduction originally proposed in The Health of the Nation strategy. The new target proposes that by the year 2010 the death rate from suicide and undetermined injury will be reduced by at least a further sixth (17%) from the baseline of 1996. The setting of such targets has always been a contentious issue among many psychiatrists, who have concerns that they may be used as a quality measure of psychiatric services, especially as some consider that social influences predominate over health care issues. The subsequent debate has focused on targeting specific at-risk groups, notably severely mentally ill young men, Asian women and those who deliberately harm themselves.

scholarly journals Media coverage of mental health care in the UK, USA and Australia

2003 ◽  
Vol 27 (9) ◽  
pp. 331-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beatrice Huang ◽  
Stefan Priebe
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Uk

Aims and MethodWe aimed to assess the contents and tone of articles on mental health care in the UK print media by comparing them with reporting in the USA and Australia. Two broadsheets from each country were analysed using the Internet for a random 4 months over a 1-year period. The number of articles, their content and the views expressed in them were identified and compared.ResultsA total of 118 articles on mental health care issues were found. The predominant tone of the articles in all three countries was negative, though there were slightly more positive articles in the USA and Australian media. Positive articles highlighted in the UK media covered mostly medical conferences and research findings.Clinical ImplicationsEfforts to achieve a more positive attitude towards people with mental illnesses in the public, such as anti-stigma campaigns, operate against a background of predominantly negative coverage of mental health care issues in broadsheets. The coverage in the UK may tend to be even less positive than in the USA and Australia. Medical conferences and research findings can, however, be used to promote positive views of mental health care in the media.

scholarly journals New Directions in Mental Health Care Evaluation

1988 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-78
Author(s):  
Isaac Marks ◽  
Joseph Connolly ◽  
Matthijs Muijen
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Scientific Data ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Health Care Evaluation ◽  
Evaluative Research ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Care Evaluation

Mental health care evaluation is a priority area as mental health care services are changing rapidly, more than are most other medical services. Budgets are finite, and there is concern for value for money in meeting the needs of patients and families. A one-day workshop brought together leading figures in the USA and Europe to discuss how a unit and consortium might be established to give cohesion and catalyse evaluative research in this fragmented field in the UK. Sound scientific data are available which have not yet been widely disseminated or used in policy making. There are rich opportunities for cross-national projects. The USA has intriguing innovations in evaluative research in mental health, some on a large scale, and these are relevant to the UK.

scholarly journals General medical care of long-stay psychiatric patients: a pilot study

1992 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 332-334
Author(s):  
Danny Allen ◽  
Sally Pugh-Williams
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
General Practice ◽  
General Practitioner ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Medical Care ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
General Medical Care ◽  
Psychiatric Units ◽  
Physical Morbidity

Studies have shown that significant physical morbidity exist within psychiatric units (Honig et al, 1989), yet general medical care is often left in the hands of psychiatrists who may not always be the most appropriate people to deliver it (Colenda et al, 1988). The new general practice contract places certain obligations on the general practitioner (GP) with regard to his or her patients, especially the elderly, yet these provisions do not extend to many of our patients. Our study looks at four areas of health care and examines how they are delivered to long-stay patients in a district pyschiatric unit with no GP input.

Does Population Aging Affect Income Inequality?

2021 ◽  
pp. 320-335
Author(s):  
Gürçem Özaytürk ◽  
Ali Eren Alper ◽  
Fındık Özlem Alper
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
Pension System ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Population Aging ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Dependency Ratio ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Relationship

This study analyzes the relationship between the elderly dependency ratio and income inequality over the period 1972-2019 in countries such as the USA, Japan, the UK, France, Germany, Canada, and Italy, which rank top in the population aging, using the Fourier-Shin cointegration test. According to the results, the rise in the elderly dependency ratio of all countries included in the analysis, except for France, has a positive impact on income inequality. The result implying that the rise in the elderly dependency ratio increases the income inequality and renders some policy recommendations possible. Accordingly, the provision of adequate childcare programs and family aids can result in greater labor force participation in the short- and long-run. In addition, a pension system can be developed to lower the elderly dependency ratio, more money can be saved for the retirement period, and working domains can be developed for the post-retirement period.

The living arrangements of elderly people

1997 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Glaser
Keyword(s):  
Elderly People ◽  
Living Arrangements ◽  
Elderly Population ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Exchange Relationships ◽  
Residential Patterns ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Intergenerational Ties ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Widespread Interest

The growth of the elderly population in the UK and other Western societies, as well as in the USA, Australia and Japan, has led to widespread interest in the living arrangements of this group. Although co-residence patterns within the household alone are not sufficient indicators of the strength of conjugal and intergenerational ties, they do provide a measure of potential intra-household support for the elderly. Studies have shown that children who live at home provide greater assistance to their parents (both financially and with domestic tasks) than non-co-resident children. Thus, residential patterns appear to be important for exchange relationships between the elderly and their kin.

scholarly journals Psychogeriatricians and general practitioners: a national survey

1993 ◽  
Vol 17 (10) ◽  
pp. 592-594 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sube Banerjee ◽  
James Lindesay ◽  
Elaine Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Social Care ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Health Care Teams ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Regular Screening ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Relationship

Recent changes in the provision of health and social care in the UK such as the institution of a purchaser/provider system and regular screening of the elderly by GPs are of importance to the relationship between primary health care teams (PHCT) and psychogeriatricians. These changes have clarified the necessity for sensitivity by psychogeriatric services to the needs of GPs and commissioning authorities.

Nurse Prescribing in Mental Health Care: What can the USA teach us?

2004 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Hemingway ◽  
M. McAllister ◽  
K. Bailey ◽  
K. Coates ◽  
S. Mitchell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Local Area ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Educational Preparation ◽  
School Of Nursing ◽  
Nurse Prescribing ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Uk

SummaryNurse Prescribing in mental health care is now a reality. As part of a long-term plan to introduce the prescribing role for mental health nurses in the local area, Doncaster and South Humber Health Care Trust and the School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Sheffield conducted a study tour of centres well established in the clinical practice and educational preparation for prescriptive authority for nurses. The findings from the visit are explored, for example: a) how is a competence in prescribing achieved by nurse, b) what is the educational delivery needed to prepare the potential prescriber? Insights are offered based on the provision of care by nurse prescribers in the states of Massachusetts and Connecticut that we visited. These are then discussed in the context of the future development of this role, which is now being introduced as an innovation aimed at meeting the mental health care needs of patients in the UK.

scholarly journals Camberwell Assessment of Need for the Elderly (CANE)

2000 ◽  
Vol 176 (5) ◽  
pp. 444-452 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Reynolds ◽  
Graham Thornicroft ◽  
Melanie Abas ◽  
Bob Woods ◽  
Juanita Hoe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Interrater Reliability ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Assessment Instrument ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Camberwell Assessment Of Need ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Test Retest Reliability ◽  
Very High ◽  
Assessment Of Need

BackgroundThere exists no instrument specifically designed to measure comprehensively the needs of older people with mental disorders.AimTo develop such an instrument which would take account of patients', staff and carers' views on needs.MethodFollowing an extensive development process, the assessment instrument was subjected to a test–retest and interrater reliability study, while aspects of validity were addressed both during development and with data provided by sites in the UK, Sweden and the USA.ResultsThe Camberwell Assessment of Need for the Elderly (CANE) comprises 24 items (plus two items for carer needs), and records staff, carer and patient views. It has good content, construct and consensual validity. It also demonstrates appropriate criterion validity. Reliability is generally very high: κ > 0.85 for all staff ratings of interrater reliability. Correlations of interrater and test–retest reliability of total numbers of needs identified by staff were 0.99 and 0.93, respectively.ConclusionsThe psychometric properties of the CANE seem to be highly acceptable. It was easily used by a wide range of professionals without formal training.

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