Older persons mental health

This category includes topics especially relevant to mental health for people over 65.

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Families & carers, MH policy, systems & legislation, Older persons mental health, Service development, Workplace wellbeing & practice support, Younger persons mental health

Feel confident as a facilitator and have a great understanding of what it takes to start a Hearing Voices Group Please note that you will need to have...

AUTISM DIAGNOSTIC OBSERVATION SCHEDULE SECOND EDITION - (ADOS-2)

Assessment & intervention, Consumer perspective, Diversity, Families & carers, Older persons mental health, Service development, Workplace wellbeing & practice support, Educator and trainer resources

For all our ADOS-2 courses at Mindful there is a prerequisite training required - the ASD Assessment Fundamentals, 2 day workshop. At Mindful our...

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Mental health and mental illness across the lifespan

Life presents a range of challenges, which vary throughout a person's lifetime. Accordingly, mental health may be affected by these challenges, and...

Mental Health for Older Persons: Conditions and Assessments

This topic explores the transition to old age and the changes to physical health that can either co-occur with, or masquerade as mental illness. The...

Mental Health for Older persons: Interventions

This topic considers approaches to mental care for older people including person-centred care, collaborative care, care co-ordination and health...

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This article includes participant discussions from an event titled "Working with Older People to Make Recovery Real in Later Life".

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The Diversity Framework seeks to embed diversity in the design and delivery of aged care; and support action to address perceived or actual barriers to consumers accessing safe, equitable and quality aged care, while enabling consumers and carers to be partners in this process.

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