Mental health and aging
Subtitle: programs and evaluations
By: edited by Michael A. Smyer, Margaret Gatz.
Contributors: Smyer, Michael A.; Gatz, Margaret.
Series: Sage studies in community mental health ;; v. 8
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Beverly Hills
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
Subjects: Older people -- Mental health services.; Community mental health services.; Community mental health services -- In old age -- United States.
Description: "Researchers describe effective mental health programmes for the aged, which are designed both for traditional settings and for more innovative circumstances. They describe and evaluate ways to help chronic and acute mental disorders, to provide preventative measures that concentrate on such factors as work or family, and finally ways to help train mental health workers. Each paper presents a clear rationale and conceptual foundation for the programme, describes the evaluation research designed to test it, and the results of that evaluation. The result is an intelligible presentation of a variety of programmes"--Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.