The mental health needs of older people are all too often overlooked or put down to the inevitable consequences of ageing. This textbook will make it much easier for health, social care and third sector workers to identify, treat and support the needs of this population.

The book takes an interdisciplinary team approach and sets the scene by looking at different practice contexts in the United Kingdom and the increasingly important role played by social care in addressing the mental health needs of older people. A number of more clinically focused chapters then cover:

• mental health promotion
• anxiety and depression
• ageing and psychosis
• alcohol and dual diagnosis
• dementia
• later life liaison services
• complex and enduring mood disorders.

Each clinical chapter makes use of extended and detailed case studies which illuminate the team's role in the assessment-intervention-evaluation cycle and ensure the text's application to practice. Service user and family perspectives are drawn on throughout and current practice exemplars outlined. The final chapter distils key messages from the book and sets a number of key challenges.

Mental Health and Later Life highlights the rewards and complexity of working with older people with mental health needs and their families. It is invaluable reading for all those learning about, or working with, this population.

About the Author

John Keady is Professor of Professor of Older People's Mental Health Nursing at the University of Manchester and holds a joint appointment with the Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, UK

Sue Watts is Head of Psychology for Older People in Salford with the Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, UK.

Reviews

'In substance, as in style, the writing is relatively abstruse in nature. Discerning review of selected research evidence, in tandem with a case-study method of instruction, imbue the text with great didactic richess. By these means, the terrain of mental health and later life, including its practice, policy and research strata is illumined brightly with rays of thoughtful perspicacity.' - Leo Uzych, Activities, Adaptation and Aging Journal 2012

Book Information
ISBN 9780415494298
Author John Keady
Format Paperback
Page Count 210
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 408g