Mental Health and Later Life

John Keady is Professor of Professor of Older People’s Mental Health Nursing at the University of Manchester and holds a joint appointment with the Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, UKSue Watts is Head of Psychology for Older People in Salford with the Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, UK.

• Introduction Part 1: Setting the Scene 1. Between Participation and Practice: Inclusive User Involvement and the Role of Practitioners 2. Social Care Approaches 3. Mental Health Promotion in Later Life Part 2: Clinical Contexts 4. Anxiety and Depression in Older People 5. Psychosis 6. Alcohol and Dual Diagnosis in Older People 7. Memory Services: Psychological Distress, Co-morbidity and the Need for Flexible Working 8. The Croydon Memory Service: Using Generic Working to Create Efficiency, Job Satisfaction and Satisfied Customers 9. Dementia: Complex Case Work 10. Later Life Liaison Services: Delivering Holistic Care in a General Hospital Setting 11. Psychological Interventions for Complex and Enduring Mood Disorders in Older People: Struggling with a Lifetime of Depression Part 3: A Way Forward 12. Key Messages in Later Life Mental Health Care

'In substance, as in style, the writing is relatively abstruse in nature. Discerning review of selected research evidence, in tandem with a case-study method of instruction, imbue the text with great didactic richess. By these means, the terrain of mental health and later life, including its practice, policy and research strata is illumined brightly with rays of thoughtful perspicacity.' - Leo Uzych, Activities, Adaptation and Aging Journal 2012