Evaluating mental health services for older people /
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford, U.K. ; San Francisco :
Radcliffe Publishing,
[2004]
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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?