Evaluating mental health services for older people /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Finch, Jenny
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, U.K. ; San Francisco : Radcliffe Publishing, [2004]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. I. Mental health services for older people in the United Kingdom
  • Development of services
  • An integrated approach to services
  • Pt. II. Old age psychiatry as a discipline worldwide
  • Development of the discipline
  • Pt. III. Europe
  • Difficulties in transnational comparisons
  • Transnational comparison studies
  • Mental health services for older people in individual European countries
  • Pt. IV. The United States
  • The legislative background
  • Funding : Medicare and Medicaid
  • State policy and programme development
  • Development of services
  • Pt. V. Canada
  • National guidelines for mental health services for older people
  • Development of services
  • Pt. VI. Australia
  • The policy background
  • Development of services
  • Co-ordination of services Pt. VII. Approaches to evaluating health and social care
  • Background
  • Standards
  • Accreditation
  • Other external quality improvement mechanisms in Western European countries
  • Government-led systems for evaluating health and social services in England and Wales
  • Towards evaluation of mental health services for older people
  • Comparative analysis of approaches to evaluation
  • Pt. VIII. Developing standards to evaluate mental health services for older people
  • The method used
  • Pilot evaluations and reviews of services
  • Pt. IX. Validity
  • Achieving validity in standards
  • Pt. X. Testing the reliability of standards in use
  • Reliability
  • Testing the reliability of the Health Advisory Service standards
  • Pt. XI. What has been learnt and future directions
  • Assessment of the Health Advisory Service approach
  • Lessons for the future
  • Incentives for improving services
  • Future research : does evaluation improve care?