Integrating Mental Health Care into Residential Homes for the Elderly: An Analysis of Six Dutch Programs for Older People with Severe and Persistent Mental Illness

2003 ◽  
Vol 51 (9) ◽  
pp. 1275-1279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marja F. I. A. Depla ◽  
Jeannette Pols ◽  
Jacomine De Lange ◽  
Carolien H. M. Smits ◽  
Ron De Graaf ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Older People ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Residential Homes ◽  
Persistent Mental Illness ◽  
Homes For The Elderly

Integrated Primary and Mental Health Care: Evaluating a Nurse-Managed Center for Clients with Serious and Persistent Mental Illness

2005 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 779-790 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith McDevitt ◽  
Susan Braun ◽  
Margaret Noyes ◽  
Marsha Snyder ◽  
Lucy Marion
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Persistent Mental Illness

Education on Old Age Psychiatry at Europe: Facts and Proposals

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (S1) ◽  
pp. 1-1 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Firmino ◽  
L. Fernandes
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Older People ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Educational Training ◽  
Old Age Psychiatry

Old Age Psychiatry is a branch of psychiatry and forms part of the multidisciplinary delivery of mental health care to older people.The specialty of psychiatry of the elderly requires a grounding in general psychiatry and in general medicine as well as training in the specific aspects of both psychiatric and medical conditions as they occur in older people. Psychiatry of the elderly should be taught in the variety of settings in which it is practised.Training in mental health care of older people should be offered at both undergraduate and postgraduate level and also during continuing professional development.It is important to recognise that in some countries, resources, especially in terms of mental health professionals, are very limited. In these countries it will be necessary to establish sensible priorities for mental health problems of the elderly.In this presentation we goes to consider some ideas to develop educational training at European Countries.

A Tribute to the Late William J. Curran

1996 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 274-275
Author(s):  
O. Lawrence ◽  
J.D. Gostin
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
Legal Medicine ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
International Institute ◽  
University Professor

In the summer of 1979, a group of experts on law, medicine, and ethics assembled in Siracusa, Sicily, under the auspices of the International Commission of Jurists and the International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Science, to draft guidelines on the rights of persons with mental illness. Sitting across the table from me was a quiet, proud man of distinctive intelligence, William J. Curran, Frances Glessner Lee Professor of Legal Medicine at Harvard University. Professor Curran was one of the principal drafters of those guidelines. Many years later in 1991, after several subsequent re-drafts by United Nations (U.N.) Rapporteur Erica-Irene Daes, the text was adopted by the U.N. General Assembly as the Principles for the Protection of Persons with Mental Illness and for the Improvement of Mental Health Care. This was the kind of remarkable achievement in the field of law and medicine that Professor Curran repeated throughout his distinguished career.

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