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Patient and carer participation in old age psychiatry in England. Part I: a systemic perspective of the historical and policy context

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2011

Susan Mary Benbow
Susan Mary Benbow*
Affiliation:
Centre for Ageing and Mental Health, Faculty of Health and Sciences, Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, UK
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: Professor S.M. Benbow, Centre for Ageing and Mental Health, Faculty of Health and Sciences, Staffordshire University, Blackheath Lane, Stafford ST18 0AD, UK. Phone: +44 (0)1785 353742. Email: drsmbenbow@aol.com.
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Abstract

Background: Patient and carer participation in old age psychiatry is less developed than in other areas of mental health. What can we learn from the historical context about increasing participation and how can it be conceptualized?

Methods: The historical and policy context of patient and carer participation in the National Health Service is reviewed and related to the development of old age psychiatry in England and the parallel development of the mental health user movement.

Results: Systemic theory is offered as a way of understanding how partnership between healthcare professionals, patients and carers might lead to service evolution by bringing a range of perspectives together in order to co-construct a mutually influenced outcome. It is further suggested that this might empower not only patients and carers but also healthcare staff at a time when they are under increasing pressures.

Conclusions: Old age psychiatry patients and carers struggle to be heard but have much to offer to services in partnership with healthcare professionals as partners and allies in service development.

Keywords

geriatric psychiatryolder people's mental healthpatient and public involvementsystemic theorysystemic therapy
Type
Review Article
Information
International Psychogeriatrics , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , February 2012 , pp. 175 - 184
Copyright
Copyright © International Psychogeriatric Association 2011

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