Category Archives: Mental Health

Elderly Mental Health.

Refusal and Resistance to Care in People With Dementia in Acute Hospitals (Patient Experience Library / NIHR / International Journal of Nursing Studies)

Posted on August 16, 2019 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Patients with dementia often have a poor experience of care in hospitals. Some hospitals are better than others, almost certainly, thanks to improvements in dementia-friendly hospital care, appropriate staff training and dementia awareness raising; however certain problems may persist … Continue reading →

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NHS Mental Health Implementation Plan: the Next Five Years (NHS England)

Posted on August 9, 2019 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

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 | 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) | Leave a comment

Dementia-Friendly Extra Care Housing: a Compendium of Best Practice (Housing LIN)

Posted on August 7, 2019 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary A Housing Learning and Improvement Network report provides a compendium of case studies illustrating good practice in extra care housing schemes and other housing-related community-based services. The focus is on supporting people with dementia to maintain meaningful relationships and … Continue reading →

Review of Socially Assistive Robots (Journal of Medical Internet Research)

Posted on August 6, 2019 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary A recent systematic review of the literature on the uses and efficacy of socially assistive robots (SARs) notes that the limited evidence to date in the field of mental health focuses largely on applications of SARs for elderly persons with dementia. There is … Continue reading →

Posted in Acute Hospitals, Assistive Technology, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), International, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Systematic Reviews, Universal Interest | Tagged Ageing Population, Agitation, Android Companions, Android Pets, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Artificial Intelligence: Assisting People With Dementia, Assistive Intelligent Robots, Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD), Betty, Care Robots, Companionship, CRECA: Contextual Respectful Counselling Agent, Distressed Behaviour, Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital (Bedford MA), Emotional Automata, Emotional Robots, Emotional Wellbeing, Entertainment and Stimulation, Ethical Issues of Dementia Care, Examples of Robots in Social Care Practice, Haptic Creature, Home Care Robots, Humanoid SARs, Individually Prioritized Problems Assessment (IPPA), Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR), Loneliness in Older People, Mental Health and Wellbeing, Mental Health Outcomes, Mental Wellbeing, Mental Wellbeing and Older People, NAO: Aldebaran Robotics, Pets (Robotic), Pets as Companions for People with Dementia, Physical Assistance (Robotic), Psychological and Emotional Wellbeing, Quality of Life and Relationship Quality for People With Dementia, Quality of Life for People Living in Care Homes, Quality of Life for People With Dementia, Reducing Agitation and Distress, RoboPets for Care Home Residents, Robot Seal (PARO), Robot Therapy, Robotherapy, Robotic Care for the Elderly, Robotic Pets for Care Home Residents, Robotic Support for Care Workers, Robotics, Robotics in Social Care, SARs: Socially Assistive Robots, Self-Assessment Manikin (SAM), Social and Community Reintegration Research Program: Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, Social Companion Robots, Social Interaction, Social Interaction With Robopets, Social Robots and Well-Being, Socially Assistive Robots, Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses, United States, USA | Leave a comment

Advancing Population Health: Government Consulation on Personalised Medicine and Prevention for the 2020s (BBC News / Cabinet Office / DHSC)

Posted on July 28, 2019 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

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 | Tagged Accelerating Detection of Disease (ADD) Challenge, Accelerating Detection of Disease Programme, Accelerating Detection of Disease Projects, Active Ageing, Active Lifestyle, Active Play, Active Travel, Adapting Homes and Neighbourhoods, Advancing Our Health: Prevention in the 2020s (DHSC 2019 Consultation), Advancing our Health: Prevention in the 2020s (Green Paper), Age-Friendly Environments, Ageing Population, Air Quality Expert Group 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Global Health Investment: An Interconnected World (Department of Health / BBC News)

Posted on July 24, 2019 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The Chief Medical Officer’s final annual report looks into the importance of working towards better health globally. There three main topics of focus are: health equity, sustainability and security. “Diseases and their determinants do not respect international borders. Ebola, … Continue reading →

Posted in BBC News, Commissioning, Department of Health, Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, International, Mental Health, National, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest, World Health Organization (WHO) | Tagged African Academy of Sciences, Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), Ban Ki-moon: Deputy Chair of The Elders, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC), Bloomberg Philanthropies, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Catherine Falconer: Office of the Chief Medical Officer (England), Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Annual Report: Health, Climate Impact Research Capacity and Leadership Enhancement (CIRCLE), Climate Research for Development (CR4D), CMO Annual Report 2019: Health, Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, Commonwealth and Chevening Scholarship Programmes, Commonwealth Partnerships for Antimicrobial Stewardship, Composite Health Index, DBT-UKRI Collaborations, Department for International Development (DfID), Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Disease Elimination and Eradication, Dr Chelsea Clinton: Vice Chair of the Clinton Foundation, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus: Director-General of the World Health Organization, Ebola, Excise Taxes (Health Taxes), Excise Taxes: Global Task Force on Fiscal Policy for Health, Excise Taxes: Improvement of Population Health, Faculty of Public Health (FPH), Fiscal Policy for Health (Excise Taxes), Geographical Health Inequalities, Global Challenges Research Fund, Global Context, Global Engagement, Global Governance, Global Health Inequalities, Global Health Investment, Global Health Oversight Group (GHOG), Global Health Program: Council on Foreign Relations, Global Health Security, Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA), Global Institute for Women’s Leadership: King’s College London, Global Outlook, Global Partnership for Education, Global Perspectives on Healthcare, Global Public Health, Guidelines on Accurate and Transparent Health Estimate Reporting (GATHER), Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre (LHSTM), Health Inequalities, Health Surveillance, Health: a Human Right, Humanitarian System, Improving Global Health, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME): University of Washington, International Development Act, International Health Inequalities, International Health Institutions, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, LMICs, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), Low- and Middle-Income Countries, Mental Health (Global), Modern Armed Conflicts, Mutual Benefits From Global Engagement, National Health Security, National Institute Health Research (NIHR) Global Health Research, OECD Development Assistance Committee, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Orla Murphy: Office of the Chief Medical Officer (England), Our Global Asset - Partnering for Progress, Partnership for Healthy Cities, Partnership for Healthy Cities (PHC), Prevention Better Than Cure, Primary Healthcare, Professor Dame Sally Davies: the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for England, Professor Dame Sally Davies: UK Special Envoy on AMR, Public Health, Public Health Surveillance, Re-Emergence of Monkeypox in Nigeria, Reducing Health Inequalities, Research and Development Funding, Science and Innovation Network (SIN), Science and Innovation Network: Foreign Office, Statistics on International Development, Sustainability, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Trans-National Institutes, Uganda UK Health Alliance: Health Consortium Model, UK Public Health Rapid Support Team, UK Public Health Rapid Support Team (UK-PHRST), UK Science and Innovation Network (SIN), UK-Jamaica Nursing Exchange Programme, Universal Health Coverage (Primary Healthcare), Universal Health Coverage (UHC), Wellcome Sanger Institute, West Africa Ebola Outbreak, Wider Determinants of Global Health, World Health Organization (WHO) | Leave a comment

More on the Uses of New Technologies in Health and Care (CQC)

Posted on July 20, 2019 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has created a collection of case studies which explore innovative uses of new technologies in the provision, monitoring and quality improvement of various health and care services. “We are determined that regulation does not stand … Continue reading →

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