Services for Older people with Mental Health Problems

The learning aims of this object are to:

  • Provide an outline of the key services for older people with mental health problems and their family carers
  • Introduce the types of needs that mainstream and specialist services meet
  • Introduce a number of issues linked to service usage including assessment of need and payment issues.

Estimated time required

40-50 mins

Instructions

In this learning object you will have an opportunity to get to learn about the principal services available for older people at the primary, mainstream, secondary/specialist and tertiary levels by travelling down a virtual ‘care pathway’. Along the way you will have the chance to test you knowledge of relevant statistics and will examine cross cutting issues and assessment.

Navigation

We recommend that you work through the introduction (and quiz), the two main sections and the conclusion in the order that they are presented. To move around use the buttons at the bottom of each screen.

References and self-assessment

When you have worked through the main sections you can:

  • visit the ‘References’ section where you can access extra materials that were references throughout and may provide useful opportunities for further reading/research. There is also a printable version of the reference list on this screen
  • visit the ‘Self-assessment’ section and test how far you have assimilated the key messages from this learning object