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Transition process between working aged adult and older adult psychiatric services
Author(s)	Sadie Bawn, Susan Benbow, David Jolley
Journal title	Generations Review, vol 14, no 4, October 2004
Pages	pp 31-32
Source	(Editorial e-mail address) gr@ageing.ox.ac.uk
Keywords	Psychiatric treatment ; Standards of provision ; Social surveys.
Annotation	Dementia Plus and the University of Wolverhampton were funded by the National Institute for Mental Health England (NIMHE) for a 12-month project which commenced in July 2003. The aims were: to establish details of the transition process between working aged adult psychiatric services and older adult psychiatric services across England and Wales; to assess the implementation of the Royal College of Psychiatrists guidelines (published in a 2003 Council report); and to ascertain the use and development of transition protocols. This article outlines the findings based on 42 semi-structured interviews with working age adult and older adult psychiatrists, psychologists and managers of mental health services. The guidelines had been read and implemented by only a minority of the services. There was also ambivalence about the guidelines: services were at different stages of devising transition protocols. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-050113215 A
Classmark	LP: 583: 3F
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