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Category Archives: Depression
Ageing Well and Older People’s Mental Health: Guidance on Implementing the NHS Long Term Plan (Royal College of Psychiatrists, Faculty of Old Age Psychiatry)
Summary The Royal College of Psychiatrists has issued guidance to help local areas organise specialist mental health services for older people, involving old age psychiatrists. Various aspects of older adults’ mental health are mapped to themes in the NHS Long … Continue reading →
Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, Delirium, Depression, Diagnosis, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Adult Severe Mental Illnesses (SMI) Community Care, Ageing Population, Ageing Well, Ageing Well and Supporting People Living With Frailty, Ageing Well: Frailty and Dementia, Anticipatory Care Planning and Integration, Bristol Dementia Wellbeing Service, Cambridge and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT), Cambridgeshire Physical and Mental Health Services for Older People, Camden and Islington’s Home Treatment Team, Camden Frailty Hub, CGAs: Comprehensive Geriatric Assessments, CHAT: Care Home Assessment Team, Commissioning Older People’s Mental Health Services, Common Mental Illnesses, Community Mental Health Framework, Community Mental Health Framework for Adults and Older Adults, Community Multidisciplinary Teams, Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA), Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Teams (CRHTTs), Dementia Connect Service, Dementia Crisis Teams, Dementia Disability and Frailty in Later Life, Devon Partnership NHS Trust, DIS: Dementia and Intensive Support, Downshall Intergenerational Provision, Dr Dr Amanda Thompsell: Chair of Faculty of Old Age Psychiatry at Royal College of Psychiatrists, Eastern Academic Health Science Network (EAHSN), EMIS: Egton Medical Information Systems, Enfield’s Care Home Assessment Team (CHAT), Enhanced Health in Care Homes (EHCH) Framework, Enhanced Health in Care Homes (EHCH) Model, Enhancing Support for Carers, Expanded Community MDTs, Faculty of Old Age Psychiatry, Faculty of Old Age Psychiatry: 2016 Literature Review on Integration and Older Adults' Mental Health, Faculty of Old Age Psychiatry: Royal College of Psychiatrists, Frail Older People, Frailty, Frailty and OPMH Research, Frailty Services, Gateshead Virtual Ward, GDS: Geriatric Depression Scale, Geriatric Depression Scale, Improved Care for Dementia and Delirium, Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT), Inappropriate Care Settings, Inappropriate Hospital Admissions, Integrated Care Systems, Integrated Care Systems (ICSs), Local Transformation Plans (LTPs): Improving Mental Health Care for Older People, Long Term Plan (LTP), Long Term Plan: Mental Health Commitments, Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Medichec, Medicine for Older People (MOP), Memory Problems and Dementia: Patient Information (RCP), Mental Health Crisis Care, Mental Health Liaison Services, Mental Health Liaison Teams, Mental Health of Older Adults and Dementia Clinical Academic Group at SLaM, Mental Health Workforce, Mindwave Ventures, National Collaborating Central for Mental Health, NHS Lanarkshire, NHS Long Term Plan (2019), NHS Long Term Plan: Living Longer Living Better Programme, NHS Long-Term Plan, NHS Mental Health Implementation Plan (NHS England 2019), NHS Mental Health: Implementation Plan For 2019/20 – 2023/24 (NHS England), NHS Newcastle Gateshead CCG, North East London Foundation Trust (NELFT), North East London NHS Foundation Trust, Old Age Psychiatrists, Old Age Psychiatry, Older Adult Mental Health (OPMH), Older People’s and Adult Community (OPAC), Older People’s Mental Health Needs, Older People’s Mental Health Services, Older People’s Mental Health Teams, OPMH: Older Adult Mental Health, Outpatient Older-Adult Liaison Psychiatry Services and Frailty (South London and Maudsley NHS Trust and King’s College Hospital), Patient Information, People Living With Frailty, Primary Care Networks, Provider Collaboratives (Formerly New Care Models), Reducing Inappropriate Accident and Emergency Department Attendances, Reducing Inappropriate Stays in Hospital, Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych): Faculty of Old Age Psychiatry, Saffron Ward: Stepping Hill Hospital, Severe Mental Illness (SMI), South London and Maudsley (SLaM) NHS Foundation Trust, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM), Support for Carers, Support for Carers of People with Dementia, Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust: Enhanced Dementia Care Ward, Urgent Community Response and Recovery Support
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Holistic Consideration of Apathy in Dementia (Journal of the American Geriatrics Society)
Summary A recent review of apathy proposes an integrative (holistic) model for understanding the condition, in common with other forms of BPSD. “As with other BPSD, …neural mechanisms alone do not completely account for the syndrome – individual, caregiver and … Continue reading →
Posted in Depression, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), Integrated Care, International, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Pharmacological Treatments, Quick Insights, Systematic Reviews, Universal Interest
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Tagged Apathy, Apathy / Indifference, Apathy in Dementia, Apathy: Caregiver Factors, Apathy: Environmental Factors, Apathy: Neuromodulation Approaches, Apathy: Non-Pharmacological Approaches, Apathy: Pharmacological Treatment, Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD), BPSD: Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia, College of Nursing: Pennsylvania State University, Department of Neurology: Perelman School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry: University of Michigan, Frontotemporal Degeneration Center: Perelman School of Medicine, Holistic Approach to Apathy, Holistic Approaches to BPSDs, Integrative Model of Apathy, Integrative Models of BPSDs, Interventions for BPSD, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, Literature Reviews, National Institute of Nursing (NINR), National Institute on Aging (NIA), Pennsylvania State University, Perelman School of Medicine: University of Pennsylvania, Program for Positive Aging: University of Michigan, Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD), Repetitive Transcranial Stimulation (rTMS), Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS), United States, University of Michigan, USA
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Potential Harms From Polypharmacy in the Elderly (BBC News / Age UK / EJCP / Bazian / Lancet Psychiatry)
Summary An Age UK report investigates the potential harms of over-prescribing medicines for older people. Older persons often remain on too many prescribed medicines, putting them at risk of side-effects, potentially resulting in falls and other forms of serious harm. … Continue reading →
Posted in Age UK, Antipsychotics, BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, Depression, Falls, Falls Prevention, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Hypertension, In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, Personalisation, Pharmacological Treatments, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
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NHS Mental Health Implementation Plan: the Next Five Years (NHS England)
Summary The NHS mental health implementation plan outlines the framework to deliver the mental health commitments of the NHS NHS Long Term Plan. There is an explanation about support for local areas from NHS England and NHS Improvement to improve … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, Depression, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Acute Mental Health Inpatient Care, Adult Severe Mental Illnesses (SMI) Community Care, Ageing Well: Frailty and Dementia, Children and Young People (CYP), Children and Young People (CYP) Mental Health, Common Mental Illnesses, Community and Voluntary Sector, Digitally-Enabled Mental Health Care, Five Year Forward View for Mental Health, Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT), Improving Perinatal Mental Health, Indicative Mental Health Workforce Profile (by Staff Group and Programme Area), Long Term Plan (LTP), Long Term Plan: Mental Health Commitments, Mental Health Crisis Care, Mental Health Data Quality, Mental Health Workforce, NHS Long Term Plan (2019), NHS Long-Term Plan, NHS Mental Health Implementation Plan (NHS England 2019), NHS Mental Health: Implementation Plan For 2019/20 – 2023/24 (NHS England), Older Adult Mental Health (OPMH), OPMH: Older Adult Mental Health, Perinatal Mental Health, Problem Gambling: Mental Health Support, Provider Collaboratives (Formerly New Care Models), Quality of Mental Health Data, Rough Sleeping: Mental Health Support, Secure Care, Suicide Reduction and Bereavement Support, Transforming Mental Health Crisis Care, Voluntary Community Social Enterprise (VCSE)
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Advancing Population Health: Government Consulation on Personalised Medicine and Prevention for the 2020s (BBC News / Cabinet Office / DHSC)
Summary It is expected that, by the 2020s, technological advances including genomics and artificial intelligence (AI) will massively improve “proactive, predictive, and personalised” approaches to the prevention of ill health. A wide-ranging consultation document explains many of the options, opportunities … Continue reading →
Posted in Assistive Technology, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), Depression, Diagnosis, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Mental Health, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Parkinson's Disease, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Public Health England, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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WHO Guidelines on Dementia Prevention (BBC News / WHO)
Summary The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued guidelines on the prevention of cognitive decline and dementia. This follows earlier related guidance and consensus statements from other bodies, nationally and internationally, which recommend the adoption of healthy lifestyles for healthier … Continue reading →
Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, Depression, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, International, Models of Dementia Care, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Quick Insights, Standards, Universal Interest, World Health Organization (WHO)
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Benefits of Robotic Pets for Elderly Care Home Residents? (International Journal of Older People Nursing)
Summary A systematic review has examined the evidence on the reported advantages of robopets (defined as small animal-like robots with the appearance and behavioural characteristics of pets) and the effects of robopets on the mental health and well-being of older … Continue reading →
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