Mental Health and Care Homes

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-959363-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 404 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 616 g

The care home sector is large, with over 400 000 residents in the UK and a similar number employed within the homes. It is therefore an area of considerable economic importance. Care home residents are often very old, and many have multiple physical and mental health needs, meaning that their care poses particular challenges. They are also a distinctly and profoundly marginalised group who are often invisible in the wider debates on quality of care including those about care homes.

Mental Health and Care Homes is a coherent and evidence-based text exploring these issues. Bringing together both clinical and research perspectives it will help those working in the care home sector to deliver high quality care and support to both residents and staff. This important, yet neglected, area is thoroughly reviewed by a range of experts including residents, family carers, staff, researchers, and clinicians.

The book has four sections: 'the inside view' which includes several first-hand accounts of care home life; 'the outside view' which discusses the regulatory, funding, and legislative context in which care homes operate; 'mental health and care', a detailed review of the major mental and other health issues that arise in care homes, as well as interventions and services to offer support; and a section exploring the 'promotion of health and wellbeing' including examples of good practice. It concludes by synthesising key themes and setting an agenda for further enquiry.

The book is written in a style that encourages engagement, with the inclusion of contemporary case studies and examples, making it topical and readable. It will be valuable for a broad professional and vocational audience across both health and social care, as well as students and researchers.

Zielgruppe

Workers in the care home sector or those involved in guiding admission decisions and/or advising on care quality; Social care /health students especially, nursing/psychiatric nursing students; Doctors with significant responsibilities for older patients: Geriatricians, old age psychiatrists, GPs, palliative care specialists

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dening, Tom

Milne, Alisoun

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Pflege Altenpflege
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Geriatrie, Gerontologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Entwicklungspsychologie Gerontopsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik: Kranken-, Alten- und Behindertenhilfe

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- Part 1: The Inside View - Living in a care home:

- 1: Pat Singer: A resident's view

- 2: Eric Berger: A carer's account

- 3: Marsha Tuffin: A care home manager's view

- 4: John Killick and Lynda Martin: Creative work with residents

- 5: Dorothy Runnicles: Hearing the voice of older people with dementia

- 6: Alisoun Milne: Living with dementia in a care home: a review of research evidence

- Part 2: The Outside View

- 7: Rekha Elaswarapu: Quality and regulation

- 8: Theresia Baumker and Ann Netten: Funding: paying for residential care for older people

- 9: Amanda Keeling: Legal aspects

- 10: Hilary Brown: Abuse in care homes for older people: the case for safeguards

- 11: Ricardo Rodrigues and Frederique Hoffmann: Long term care: an international perspective

- Part 3: Mental Health and Care

- 12: Tom Dening: Meeting mental health needs

- 13: Janya Freer and Raja Badrakalimuthu: Dementia in care homes

- 14: Briony Dow, Xiaoping Lin, Jean Tinney, Betty Haralambous and David Ames: Depression in care homes

- 15: Catherine Hatfield and Tom Dening: Functional mental illness

- 16: Graham Stokes: Psychosocial interventions in care homes

- 17: Amanda Thompsell: Support to care homes

- 18: Jill Manthorpe and Jo Moriarty: Working with minorities in care homes

- 19: Clive Bowman: Physical health issues

- 20: Elizabeth L. Sampson and Karen Harrison Dening: Palliative care and end of life care

- Part 4: Promoting Health and Well being

- 21: Dawn Brooker: Promoting health and well-being: good practice inside care homes

- 22: Claire Goodman and Sue Davies: Good practice: outside the care home

- 23: Sheila Furness: Risk and choice

- 24: Buz Loveday: Dementia training in care homes

- 25: Julienne Meyer and Tom Owen: My Home Life: exploring the evidence base for best practice

- Looking to the Future: Conclusions

- 26: Tom Dening and Alisoun Milne: Conclusion: key themes and future directions

Über Autor(innen)

Tom Dening studied Medicine at Newcastle University and trained in Psychiatry in Cambridge and Oxford. Since 1991 he has been Consultant Psychiatrist in Old Age Psychiatry in Cambridge. From 1999 to 2002 he was seconded part-time to the Department of Health as a Senior Professional Adviser, including work on the National Service Framework for Older People. Since 2002, he has been Medical Director of what is now the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust. His interests include the epidemiology of mental disorders in older people, treatment of dementia and depression in older people, psychiatric services and other clinical topics. He is one of the editors of the Oxford Textbook of Old Age Psychiatry, the leading international work in this field. He has also published papers on neuropsychiatry, psychiatric symptoms and the history of psychiatry.

Dr Alisoun Milne has worked at the University of Kent for fifteen years. She is currently a Reader in Social Gerontology in the University's highly rated School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research. Prior to this she worked in two of the School's research centres: the Personal Social Services Research Unit and the Tizard Centre. Before entering academia she was a social worker and social work manager. Alisoun's key research interests are: mental health in later life, older carers, carers of people with dementia, and marginalised populations of older people including care home residents. She regularly conducts funded research, contributes to the development of guidance materials, and has published widely for academic and practitioner audiences. She is a member of a number of national and local advisory groups, including the Standing Commission on Carers.