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Psychiatr Serv ; 51(4): 506-12, 2000 Apr.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-10737827

RESUMEN

OBJECTIVE: The study sought to determine the degree to which use of community services is related to predisposing, enabling, and need factors among older patients with psychotic disorders who live in the community and to assess whether high use of community services is associated with improving or declining psychopathology. METHODS: The sample consisted of 89 middle-aged and elderly community-dwelling patients with schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders. Assessments at baseline and two follow-ups at six-month intervals included measures of psychopathology, well-being, and social adjustment, in addition to the frequency of use of 17 formal community services in three categories-psychological, social, and daily living services. RESULTS: Ninety-two percent of patients reported use of community support services. The mean number of annual service contacts per patient was 36.6 for psychological services, 81 for social services, and 39.7 for daily living services. High users of psychological services were younger and experienced more severe positive psychotic symptoms and depressive symptoms. High users of social services were of higher socioeconomic status, more likely to be female, and had a longer history of psychosis, more cognitive deficits, and more severe negative psychotic and depressive symptoms. Patients who used daily living services were older, had poorer functional health status and more cognitive deficits, and had more severe negative psychotic and depressive symptoms. A trend was noted for high users of social services to experience relief from depressive symptoms over time. CONCLUSIONS: Use of community services is common among older outpatients with psychotic disorders, but its frequency varies as a function of patient characteristics.


Asunto(s)
Servicios Comunitarios de Salud Mental/estadística & datos numéricos , Trastornos Psicóticos/epidemiología , Apoyo Social , Anciano , Estudios de Cohortes , Femenino , Necesidades y Demandas de Servicios de Salud/estadística & datos numéricos , Humanos , Estudios Longitudinales , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Escalas de Valoración Psiquiátrica , Psicopatología , Trastornos Psicóticos/terapia , Resultado del Tratamiento , Revisión de Utilización de Recursos
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Psychiatr Serv ; 50(9): 1205-8, 1999 Sep.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-10478908

RESUMEN

This paper examines current numbers of U.S. mental health care professionals in psychiatry, psychology, social work, and nursing who are trained to treat late-life mental disorders and presents estimates of the increased numbers that will be needed by 2010. Strategies that may be effective in increasing the supply of geriatric mental health specialists are expanding incentives, such as fellowship stipends, loan forgiveness programs, and clinical reimbursement, to attract more clinicians to the field; encouraging professional organizations to offer certification in aging to highlight increased knowledge among professionals; and increasing core curricula in late-life mental disorders, or at least in aging, in all health professions. Other strategies are to diversify the range of training opportunities available by establishing short-term training initiatives to meet specific demands; use new technology to provide education to both professionals and the public; and establish "centers of excellence" to advance research training and clinical care in late-life mental disorders.


Asunto(s)
Psiquiatría Geriátrica/educación , Servicios de Salud Mental/normas , Enseñanza , Anciano , Femenino , Necesidades y Demandas de Servicios de Salud/tendencias , Humanos , Masculino , Estados Unidos , Recursos Humanos
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Arch Gen Psychiatry ; 56(9): 848-53, 1999 Sep.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-12884891

RESUMEN

It is anticipated that the number of people older than 65 years with psychiatric disorders in the United States will increase from about 4 million in 1970 to15 million in 2030. The current health care system serves mentally ill older adults poorly and is unprepared to meet the upcoming crisis in geriatric mental health. We recommend the formulation of a 15- to 25-year plan for research on mental disorders in elderly persons. It should include studies of prevention, translation of findings from bench to bedside, large-scale intervention trials with meaningful outcome measures, and health services research. Innovative strategies are needed to formulate new conceptualizations of psychiatric disorders, especially those given scant attention in the past. New methods of clinical and research training involving specialists, primary care clinicians, and the lay public are warranted.


Asunto(s)
Trastornos Mentales/epidemiología , Investigación/normas , Distribución por Edad , Anciano , Protocolos Clínicos/normas , Atención a la Salud/normas , Predicción , Evaluación Geriátrica/estadística & datos numéricos , Psiquiatría Geriátrica/educación , Investigación sobre Servicios de Salud , Humanos , Trastornos Mentales/diagnóstico , Trastornos Mentales/terapia , Prevalencia , Proyectos de Investigación/estadística & datos numéricos , Proyectos de Investigación/tendencias , Apoyo a la Investigación como Asunto , Estados Unidos/epidemiología
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Am J Geriatr Psychiatry ; 5(3): 238-46, 1997.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-9209566

RESUMEN

In July 1995, the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry (AAGP) sponsored the first annual week-long Summer Research Institute (SRI) in Geriatric Psychiatry, at the University of California, San Diego. The NIMH-funded SRI was intended for promising postresidency and postdoctoral fellows, as well as junior faculty persons interested in research careers in geriatric psychiatry. The SRI focused on the tools needed to begin, maintain, and succeed on that career path and has been followed by continued communication between trainees and faculty. The SRI was highly successful, judging from the participants' evaluations, as well as the trainees' accomplishments in terms of publications and research funding during 1 year of follow-up. The SRI provides a useful model for an approach to bridging and shortening the transition period from fellowship to first research funding and of ensuring a continued flow of new investigators in geriatric psychiatry.


Asunto(s)
Academias e Institutos , Educación Médica Continua , Educación de Postgrado en Medicina , Psiquiatría Geriátrica/educación , Anciano , California , Selección de Profesión , Curriculum , Humanos , Apoyo a la Investigación como Asunto , Especialización
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